Optical Spectra of Garnet

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• Platonov AN, Taran MN, Kharkiv AD, Povarennykh AS (1976)  "Alexandrite" color of garnets. Dopovidi Akademii Nauk Ukrainskoi RSR, Seriya B: Geologichni, Khimichni ta Biologichni Nauki (1976), (8), 694-8. In Ukrainian
  
• Matsyuk SS, Platonov AN, Belichenko VP (1978) On the dependence spectroscopic parameters of Cr³⁺ ions on garnet composition. Konst Svoystv Mineral (Constitution and Properties of Minerals) 12:112-115 (in Russian) .
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• Matsyuk SS, Platonov AN, Belichenko VP, Kharkiv AD, Suturin AN (1978) Relation of the spectroscopic parameters of chromium (3+) ions to the composition of garnets. Konstitutsiya i Svoistva Mineralov 12, 112-115. In Russian
• Smith, G (1978) Evidence for absorption by exchange-coupled iron(2+)-iron(3+) ion pairs in the near infra-red spectra of minerals. Physics and Chemistry of Minerals 3, 375-83. 1978    
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• Geiger CA, Stahl A, Rossman GR (2000) Single-crystal IR- and UV/VIS-spectroscopic measurements on transition-metalbearingpyrope: the incorporation of hydroxide in garnet. European Journal of Mineralogy 12, 259–271
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• Schmetzer K, Hainschwang T, Kiefert L, Bernhardt HJ (2001) Pink to Pinkish Orange Malaya Garnets from Bekily, Madagascar. Gems & Gemology 17, 296-308.
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• Langer K, Platonov AN, Matsyuk S (2004) Local mean chromium–oxygen distances in Cr³⁺-centered octahedra of natural grossular-uvarovite garnet solid solutions from electronic absorption spectra Z Kristallogr 219, 272-277.
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