Section: 6 | Minerals and pigments (MP) | Page: 357 |
IRUG filename: IMP00357 | Data type: Infrared | IRUG material class: Minerals and pigments (MP) |
Sample type: Reference material | Common name(s): Dypingite | Chemical/botanical name(s): Hydrated carbonate with hydroxyl or halogen (class), hydromagnesite (mineral group) |
Sample source 1: Brosso | Source location 1: Ivrea, Piemonte, Italy | Sample source 2: British Museum |
Sample identifier 2: BM1978,500 | Sample source 3: The Natural History Museum, National Museums of Scotland | Source location 3: Cromwell Road, London, SW7 5BD, UK, Edinburgh, UK |
Color: White | 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. Raade, G. "Dypingite, a New Hydrous Basic Carbonate of Magnesium, from Norway." American Mineralogist 55 (1970): 1457-465. Smolin, P. P., and T. A. Ziborova. "Types of Water, Stoichiometry and Relations between Hydromanganesite and Other Hydrated Magnesium Carbonates." Doklady-Academy of Sciences of the USSR, Earth Sciences Section 226.16 (1976): 130-33. | Originating institution name: Natural History Museum, National Museums of Scotland | Originating institution acronym: NHM |
Molecular formula: C4 H12 Mg5 O19 | Linear formula: Mg5(CO3)4(OH)2*5H2O | Other analytical methods: EDS (Mg with trace S), SEM, XRD (7857F=dypingite or very near NHM std) |