Abstract
An omphacite from the Nybø eclogite pod, Norway, has a chemical composition which plots within the gap, often regarded as a miscibility gap, which is evident in all previous compilations of natural jadeite-rich acmite-poor omphacite compositions. Its cation site populations determined by crystal structure refinement accord well with its chemical composition analysed by electron microprobe. Its disordered space group C2/c symmetry extends the known compositional range of C2/c pyroxene. The postulated miscibility gap is regarded as real and wide at low temperatures, but it appears to narrow with increasing temperature or ultimately with increasing acmite proportion. The adjacent primitive symmetry field appears to initially widen with increasing temperature or increasing acmite proportion, at the expense of the diminishing miscibility gap, before finally closing with further increase.
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