Section: 6 | Minerals and pigments (MP) | Page: 475 |
IRUG filename: IMP00475 | Data type: Infrared | IRUG material class: Minerals and pigments (MP) |
Sample type: Reference material | Common name(s): Paralstonite | Chemical/botanical name(s): Anhydrous normal carbonate (class), aragonite (mineral group) |
Sample source 1: Minerva Mine, Cave-in-Rock | Source location 1: Hardin County, Illinois, US | Sample source 2: British Museum |
Source location 2: Great Russell Street, London, WC1B-3DG, UK | Sample identifier 2: BM1972,254 | 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: Trimorphous with alstonite and barytocalcite, spectrum is distinguishable from that of alstonite only in the 700 cm-1 region |
Application: Transmission FTIR spectroscopy | Mode: Tran | Literature Reference: Jones, G. C., and B. Jackson. Infrared Transmission Spectra of Carbonate Minerals. London: Chapman & Hall, 1993. Effenberger, H. "Die Kristallstruktur Des Minerals Paralstonit, BaCa(Co3)2 (The Crystal Structure of Paralstonite)." Neues Jahrbuch Fur Mineralogie, Monatshefte (1980): 353-63. Roberts, A. C. "Paralstonite: A New Mineral from the Minerva No. 1 Mine, Cave in Rock, Illinois." Papers, Geological Survey of Canada, Current Research, Part C 79.1, C (1979): 99-100. |
Originating institution name: Natural History Museum, National Museums of Scotland | Originating institution acronym: NHM | Molecular formula: C2 Ba Ca O6 |
Linear formula: BaCa(CO3)2 | Other analytical methods: EDS (Ba & Ca only), SEM, XRD (8146F NHM std) |