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Titanium Colour Centres in Rose Quartz

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  1. Department of Chemistry, Wheaton College, Illinois

    P. M. WRIGHT

  2. Chemistry Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Illinois

    J. A. WEIL

  3. Department of Physical Chemistry, University of Buenos Aires,

    T. BUCH

  4. Department of Physics, University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

    J. H. ANDERSON

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WRIGHT, P., WEIL, J., BUCH, T. et al. Titanium Colour Centres in Rose Quartz. Nature 197, 246–248 (1963). https://doi.org/10.1038/197246a0

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