Knorringite
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knorringite-190-8724118
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Knorringite
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Knorringite is a mineral species belonging to the garnet group, and forms a series with the species pyrope. It was discovered in 1968 in the Kao kimberlite pipe in the Butha-Buthe District of Lesotho and is named after Oleg Von Knorring, a professor of mineralogy at the University of Leeds in England. Synthetic knorringite has the pure endmember formula Mg3Cr2(SiO4)3. As knorringite is a member of the knorringite–pyrope series, natural samples contain variable aluminium in the chromium site. Kno
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Mineral species belonging to the garnet group
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knorringite
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2024-01-03T22:30:03Z
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