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Thursday, March 11, 2021

Floating-Zone Process

 

Floating-Zone Process

Hattori Seiko (red, orange, blue), Novosibirsk (red).

1.   Gas bubbles of various sizes, shapes and orientations.

2.   Irregular colour swirls.

3.   Secondary lamellar glide twinning along the rhombohedron faces. Twin planes may intersect at 87 and 93 , and may also show long white needles (boehmite?) at the junctions of intersecting twinning planes. Best seen between crossed polars while immersed.

4.   Rectilinear parting.

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