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THE mineral sphalerite is well known as a ready solvent, at elevated temperatures, for a number of other sulphides. On cooling, such a homogeneous solid solution unmixes, producing exsolution bodies of the solute aligned, ideally. along the structure planes of the sphalerite host.
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Lawrence, L. J., and Chand, F. (in preparation).
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LAWRENCE, L. Multiple Solid Solution on Sulphides in Sphalerite. Nature 197, 171–172 (1963). https://doi.org/10.1038/197171a0
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