Auerlite
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Auerlite is a rare North Carolina mineral variety, remarkably rich in thorium dioxide (also known as thoria), named after Carl Auer von Welsbach, the inventor of the Welsbach incandescent gas mantle. It is considered to be a phosphorus bearing variety of thorite.
Auerlite is a rare North Carolina mineral variety, remarkably rich in thorium dioxide (also known as thoria), named after Carl Auer von Welsbach, the inventor of the Welsbach incandescent gas mantle. It is considered to be a phosphorus bearing variety of thorite. ==References== This work in turn cites:
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