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Fig. 2. Photomicrograph showing perrierite (black) from Bjgrkedalen, with core of loparite (grey) and pyrophanite (dark grey). The perrierite is surrounded by aegirine (grey) and microcline (light grey). (White areas are the thin section cementing material.) Length of picture 18 mm.  Ito (1967), in his synthetic studies of these phases, plotted the effective size of the cations in the A posi- tion versus the average effective size of the cations in the B and C positions, and showed that the struc- ture changed from chevkinite to perrierite when the difference in these two values is excessive. Figure 3 is a plot of this kind using only synthetic materials of the type A,BC,Si,O,. which can be restated as

Figure 2 Photomicrograph showing perrierite (black) from Bjgrkedalen, with core of loparite (grey) and pyrophanite (dark grey). The perrierite is surrounded by aegirine (grey) and microcline (light grey). (White areas are the thin section cementing material.) Length of picture 18 mm. Ito (1967), in his synthetic studies of these phases, plotted the effective size of the cations in the A posi- tion versus the average effective size of the cations in the B and C positions, and showed that the struc- ture changed from chevkinite to perrierite when the difference in these two values is excessive. Figure 3 is a plot of this kind using only synthetic materials of the type A,BC,Si,O,. which can be restated as