Carbonated Hydroxyapatite

Michael Fleet was educated at Manchester University, UK, and enjoyed a scholarly career in the Department of Earth Sciences at the University of Western Ontario, Canada, where he is currently professor emeritus. He has published extensively in the general area of earth material science, using x-ray crystallography, laboratory synthesis and experimentation, and chemical spectroscopy as his primary research tools. Prof. Fleet’s research interests have encompassed metal sulphides; geochemistry of gold, nickel, and platinum; high-pressure silicates; apatite; rare earth silicates; mica minerals; and boron. He is the author of Micas, volume 3A in the Rock-Forming Minerals series. He was elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 1996, awarded the Past Presidents’ Medal of the Mineralogical Association of Canada in 1997, and appointed honorary professor at Jilin University, Changchun, P. R. China, in 2006.

Introduction. Apatite-type Structure. Crystal Chemistry and Geochemistry. Synthesis of Carbonate Apatites. X-ray Structures. Chemical Spectroscopy. Carbonate Apatite Crystal Chemistry. Biological Apatites. Appendix I: Minerals within the Apatite Supergroup. Appendix II: Compositions of Some Apatites. Appendix III: Crystal Structure Data for Synthetic Carbonate Apatites (CHAP, CFAP). References Cited. Index.