“…Moreover, the existence of a low temperature incommensurate phase in åkermanite has been confirmed by electron microscopic and electron diffraction studies (Seifert et al, 1987;Iishi et al, 1989Iishi et al, , 1990 Si MAS NMR (magic angle spinning nuclear magnetic resonance) spectroscopy (Merwin et al, 1989), EXAFS analyses (Tamura et al, 1996), X ray single crystal structure refinement (Kimata and Saito, 1987;Armbruster et al, 1990;Hagiya et al, 1992Hagiya et al, , 1993Kusaka et al, 1998) and other means (cf. Seifert and Röthlisberger, 1993).…”