Abstract
Monazite is commonly believed to be a nonmetamict mineral. The results of the published X-ray examination of monazite do not unambiguously support this belief. The results of the present investigation on four different samples of monazite of known thorium content show that the thorium-containing monazite occur in a fairly high degree of metamictization. The results of the petrological examination also support this conclusion.
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