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MEASUREMENTS of the distribution of cations and the detection of order-disorder phenomena in crystal structures provide a potential means of determining the temperature and pressure of formation of minerals. Such data have been obtained from crystal structure analyses of iron silicates by X-ray diffraction techniques (refs. 1–7 and Gibbs, G. V., and Burnham, C. W., personal communications). More rapid and direct techniques, such as infra-red spectroscopy8 and Mossbauer spectroscopy9,10, have since been used to detect cation ordering and to estimate site populations in suites of silicate minerals.
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BANCROFT, G., BURNS, R. & HOWIE, R. Determination of the Cation Distribution in the Orthopyroxene Series by the Mossbauer Effect. Nature 213, 1221–1223 (1967). https://doi.org/10.1038/2131221a0
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