Interactive IRUG Spectrum

Section: 6

Minerals and pigments (MP)

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IRUG filename: IMP00347	Data type: Infrared	IRUG material class: Minerals and pigments (MP)
Sample type: Reference material	Common name(s): Hydromagnesite	Chemical/botanical name(s): Hydrated carbonate with hydroxyl or halogen (class), hydromagnesite (mineral group)
Sample source 1: Red Mountain District	Source location 1: Santa Clara County, California (CA), US	Sample source 2: British Museum
Source location 2: Great Russell Street, London, WC1B-3DG, UK	Sample identifier 2: BM1975,597	Sample source 3: The Natural History Museum, National Museums of Scotland
Source location 3: Cromwell Road, London, SW7 5BD, UK, Edinburgh, UK	Color: White	Other: See Farmer for a discussion of spectrum and other references to IR work on hydrated magnesium carbonates, spectrum is close to that of dypingite
Application: Transmission FTIR spectroscopy	Mode: Tran	Literature Reference: Jones, G. C., and B. Jackson. Infrared Transmission Spectra of Carbonate Minerals. London: Chapman & Hall, 1993. Canterford, J. H., G. Tsambourakis, and R. Lambert. "Some Observations on the Properties of Dypingite, Mg5(CO3)4(OH)2*5H2O and Related Minerals." Mineralogical Magazine 43.348 (1984): 437-42. Nechiporenko, G. O., G. V. Sokolova, T. A. Ziborova, and G. P. Bondarenko. "Hydrated Hydromagnesite." Mineralogicheskiy Zhurnal 10.1 (1988): 78-85. Smolin, P. P., and T. A. Ziborova. "Types of Water, Stoichiometry and Relations between Hydromagnesite and Other Hydrated Magnesium Carbonates." Doklady-Academy of Sciences of the USSR, Earth Sciences Section 226.1, 6 (1977): 130-33. White, W. B. "Infrared Characterization of Water and Hydroxyl Ion in the Basic Magnesium Carbonate Minerals." American Mineralogist 56.1, 2 (1971): 46-53.
Originating institution name: Natural History Museum, National Museums of Scotland	Originating institution acronym: NHM	Molecular formula: C4 H10 Mg5 O15
Linear formula: Mg5(CO3)4(OH)2*4H2O	Other analytical methods: EDS (Mg only), SEM, XRD (19248 NHM std=hydromagnesite)