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Mineral contains: nierite
Jambor J L, Pertsev N N, Roberts A C (1996) New mineral names. American Mineralogist 81, 249-254
Kohatsu I, McCauley J W (1974) Re-examination of the crystal structure of α-Si3N4. Materials Research Bulletin 9, 917-920
Lee M R, Russell S S, Arden J W, Pillinger C T (1995) Nierite (Si3N4), a new mineral from ordinary and enstatite chondrites. Meteoritics 30, 387-398
Yang P, Fun H-K, Rahman I A, Saleh M I (1995) Two phase refinements of the structures of α-Si3N4 and β-Si3N4 made from rice husk by Rietveld analysis. Ceramics International 21, 137-142