Interactive IRUG Spectrum

Section: 6

Minerals and pigments (MP)

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IRUG filename: IMP00433	Data type: Infrared	IRUG material class: Minerals and pigments (MP)
Sample type: Reference material	Common name(s): Strontianite	Chemical/botanical name(s): Anhydrous normal carbonate (class), aragonite (mineral group)
CAS name: Strontianite (Sr(CO3))	Source location 1: Strontian, Highland Region, Scotland, UK	Sample source 2: British Museum
Source location 2: Great Russell Street, London, WC1B-3DG, UK	Sample identifier 2: BM58848	Sample source 3: The Natural History Museum, National Museums of Scotland
Source location 3: Cromwell Road, London, SW7 5BD, UK, Edinburgh, UK	Color: Green, pale	Other: Compare spectrum with those of other members of the aragonite group
Application: Transmission FTIR spectroscopy	Mode: Tran	Literature Reference: Jones, G. C., and B. Jackson. Infrared Transmission Spectra of Carbonate Minerals. London: Chapman & Hall, 1993. Gevork'yan, S. V., and O. S. Povarennikh. "New Infrared Spectra for Minerals in the Calcite and Aragonite Groups." Dopovidi Akademiyi Nauk Ukrayins'koyi RSR, Seriya B: Geologichni, Khimichni Ta Biologichni Nauki 11 (1983): 8-12. White, W. B. "The Carbonate Minerals." The Infrared Spectra of Minerals. Ed. V. C. Farmer. Monograph 4 ed. London: Mineralogical Society of London, 1974. 227-84.
Originating institution name: Natural History Museum, National Museums of Scotland	Originating institution acronym: NHM	Molecular formula: C O3 Sr
Linear formula: SrCO3	CAS registry no: 14941-40-3	Other analytical methods: EDS (major Sr with minow Ca (3.8 wt% CaO)), SEM, XRD (1704F NHM std)