Interactive IRUG Spectrum

Section: 6

Minerals and pigments (MP)

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IRUG filename: IMP00397	Data type: Infrared	IRUG material class: Minerals and pigments (MP)
Sample type: Reference material	Common name(s): Macphersonite	Chemical/botanical name(s): Compound carbonate (class), susannite (mineral group)
Sample source 1: Leadhills Dod	Source location 1: Leadhills, Lanarkshire, Scotland, UK	Sample source 2: Royal Museum of Scotland
Source location 2: Chambers Street, Edinburgh, EH1 1JF, UK	Sample identifier 2: RMS721.34	Sample source 3: The Natural History Museum, National Museums of Scotland
Source location 3: Cromwell Road, London, SW7 5BD, UK, Edinburgh, UK	Other: Trimorphous with leadhillite and susannite, spectrum is very similar to, but distinguishable from, those of leadhillite and susannite	Application: Transmission FTIR spectroscopy
Mode: Tran	Literature Reference: Jones, G. C., and B. Jackson. Infrared Transmission Spectra of Carbonate Minerals. London: Chapman & Hall, 1993. Livingstone, A., and H. Sarp. "Macphersonite: A New Mineral from Leadhills, Scotland, and Saint Prix, Frabce: A Polymorph of Leadhille and Susannite." Mineralogical Magazine 48.2 (1984): 277-82. Russell, J. D., A. R. Fraser, and A. Livingstone. "The Infrared Absorption Spectra of the Three Polymorphs of PbSO4(CO3)2(OH)2 (leadhillite, Susannite and Macphersonite)." Mineralogical Magazine 48.2 (1984): 295-97.	Originating institution name: Natural History Museum, National Museums of Scotland
Originating institution acronym: NHM	Molecular formula: C2 H2 O12 Pb 4S	Linear formula: Pb4(SO4)(CO3)2(OH)2
Other analytical methods: EDS (major Pb, S with trace Cu, Cd), SEM, XRD (2191 and 2192 NHM std)