Talk:Bytownite
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Industrial uses
[edit]Is Bytownite industrially useful in any way? 24.77.16.7 (talk) 03:49, 8 December 2017 (UTC)
- Not especially, a minor ore of Aluminium and a component of some ceramic glazes. I asked the question on Mindat, and you can see the answers there. DuncanHill (talk) 17:13, 12 December 2017 (UTC)
- I Thank you on behalf of myself, and maybe future inquirers, for tracking down an answer! (Which also led to this paper, "Norwegian anorthosites and their industrial uses, with
emphasis on the massifs of the Inner Sogn-Voss area in Western Norway" - from the abstract, "the bytownite plagioclase [..is..] well suited for industrial processes based on acid leaching") 24.77.16.7 (talk) 07:26, 23 December 2017 (UTC)