Articles | Volume 35, issue 6
https://doi.org/10.5194/ejm-35-1027-2023
https://doi.org/10.5194/ejm-35-1027-2023
New minerals, nomenclature, and classification
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23 Nov 2023
New minerals, nomenclature, and classification |  | 23 Nov 2023

Changes to the cerite group nomenclature

Daniel Atencio, Andrezza A. Azzi, Kai Qu, Ritsuro Miyawaki, Ferdinando Bosi, and Koichi Momma

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This article introduces a new nomenclature system for the cerite group minerals. This system was necessary to allow the nomenclature of new species of minerals that are currently being described.
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