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Let's get it right: spessartine garnet?
From:
Rocks & Minerals
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March 1, 2004| Author:
White, John S.
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I am not sure, but I believe that we can largely thank the gemological community for the fact that today, whenever the name spessartine (or almandine, or grossular, or pyrope, and so forth) appears in print, the species name is virtually always followed by garnet, as though the perpetrators believe that their audience does not know that spessartine (or the others) is a member of the garnet family, This occurs even in what are sometimes very technical articles requiring extensive tr...
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