Interactive IRUG Spectrum

Section: 6

Minerals and pigments (MP)

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IRUG filename: IMP00457	Data type: Infrared	IRUG material class: Minerals and pigments (MP)
Sample type: Reference material	Common name(s): Shortite	Chemical/botanical name(s): Anhydrous normal carbonate (class), eitelite (mineral group)
Sample source 1: West Vaca Mine	Source location 1: Near Green River, Sweetwater County, Wyoming (WY), US	Sample source 2: British Museum
Source location 2: Great Russell Street, London, WC1B-3DG, UK	Sample identifier 2: BM1968,42	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: Spectrum matches that shown in Sadtler (93), but has better resolution
Application: Transmission FTIR spectroscopy	Mode: Tran	Literature Reference: Jones, G. C., and B. Jackson. Infrared Transmission Spectra of Carbonate Minerals. London: Chapman & Hall, 1993. Bradley, W. H., and H. P. Eugster. "Geochemistry and Paleolimnology of the Trona Deposits and Associated Authigenic Minerals of the Green River Formation of Wyoming." U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper (1969): B1-B71. 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: C3 Ca2 Na2 O9
Linear formula: Na2Ca2(CO3)3	Other analytical methods: EDS (Na:Ca:MG=approx. 1:1:0.1 with trace K, Al, Si), SEM, XRD