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Crystal Chemistry of Complex Sulfides (Sulfosalts) and its Chemical Application

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Modern Perspectives in Inorganic Crystal Chemistry

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Crystal structures of many complex sulfides can be obtained by recombination of fragments of archetypal structures by the action of various structure-building operators. Chemical categories, coordination polyhedra, archetypes and recombination operators for these structures are described in the paper. These structures often occur as members of accretional or variable-fit homologous series or as homologous pairs of various kinds. Three case studies supplemented by exercises are described in some detail: the lillianite homologous series, the misfit layer structures and those structures that represent combination of the accretional and variable-fit principles.

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Makovicky, E. (1992). Crystal Chemistry of Complex Sulfides (Sulfosalts) and its Chemical Application. In: Parthé, E. (eds) Modern Perspectives in Inorganic Crystal Chemistry. NATO ASI Series, vol 382. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-2726-4_8

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