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In this chapter, some of the specific properties of feldspars described in other chapters are used in the naming of the members of this complex family of minerals. A brief survey of the nomenclature is given in Chapter 1 and the compositional ranges of various types of feldspars in Fig. 1.6.
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Smith, J.V., Brown, W.L. (1988). Nomenclature, General Properties of Feldspars and Simple Determinative Diagrams. In: Feldspar Minerals. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-72594-4_9
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