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Section: 6 Minerals and pigments (MP) Page: 454

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Details

IRUG filename:
IMP00454
Data type:
Infrared
IRUG material class:
Minerals and pigments (MP)
Sample type:
Reference material
Common name(s):
Pirssonite
Chemical/botanical name(s):
Hydrated normal carbonate (class), gaylussite (mineral group)
Sample source 1:
Searles Lake bore-hole
Source location 1:
San Bernardino County, California (CA), US
Sample source 2:
British Museum
Source location 2:
Great Russell Street, London, WC1B-3DG, UK
Sample identifier 2:
BM1972,206
Sample source 3:
The Natural History Museum, National Museums of Scotland
Source location 3:
Cromwell Road, London, SW7 5BD, UK, Edinburgh, UK
Color:
Colorless
Other:
Spectrum matches that of Adler and Kerr (1963) and is discussed in Farmer (1974), spectrum is easily distinguished from that of the higher hydrate gaylussite
Application:
Transmission FTIR spectroscopy
Mode:
Tran
Literature Reference:
Jones, G. C., and B. Jackson. Infrared Transmission Spectra of Carbonate Minerals. London: Chapman & Hall, 1993., Huang, C. K., and P. F. Kerr. "Infrared Study of the Carbonate Minerals." American Mineralogist 45 (1960): 311-24., Pratt, J. H. "On Northupite: Pirssonite, a New Mineral: Gaylussite and Hanksite from Borax Lake, San Bernadino Co., California." American Journal of Science 4.2 (1896): 123-35., Pratt, J. H. "On Northupite: Pirssonite, a New Mineral: Gaylussite and Hanksite from Borax Lake, San Bernadino Co., California." Yale Bicen. Pub, Contr. Miner. 1901 (1896): 261-74., Pratt, J. H. "On Northupite: Pirssonite, a New Mineral: Gaylussite and Hanksite from Borax Lake, San Bernadino Co., California." Zeitschrift Fur Kristallographie 27 (1896): 416-29.
Originating institution name:
Natural History Museum, National Museums of Scotland
Originating institution acronym:
NHM
Molecular formula:
C2 H4 Ca Na2 O8
Linear formula:
Na2Ca(CO3)2*2H2O
Other analytical methods:
EDS (Na:Ca=2:1), SEM, XRD (7856F std=pirssonite NHM (with an additional line at 3.3 A))