Interactive IRUG Spectrum

Section: 6

Minerals and pigments (MP)

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IRUG filename: IMP00416	Data type: Infrared	IRUG material class: Minerals and pigments (MP)
Sample type: Reference material	Common name(s): Hydrozincite	Chemical/botanical name(s): Anhydrous carbonate with hydroxyl or halogen (class), aurichalcite (mineral group)
CAS name: Hydrozincite (Zn5(CO3)2(OH)6)	Source location 1: Goodsprings, Clark County, Nevada, US	Sample source 2: British Museum
Source location 2: Great Russell Street, London, WC1B-3DG, UK	Sample identifier 2: BM1934,975	Sample source 3: The Natural History Museum, National Museums of Scotland
Source location 3: Cromwell Road, London, SW7 5BD, UK, Edinburgh, UK	Color: White, colorless	Other: Chalky material gave a much more detailed and well-resolved spectrum than associated colorless needles (also hydrozincites), compare spectrum with that of hydrozincite ("Dorchester type") IR2755
Application: Transmission FTIR spectroscopy	Mode: Tran	Literature Reference: Jambor, J. L. "Natural and Synthetic Hydrozincites." Canadian Mineralogist 8.5 (1966): 652-53., Jones, G. C., and B. Jackson. Infrared Transmission Spectra of Carbonate Minerals. London: Chapman & Hall, 1993.
Originating institution name: Natural History Museum, National Museums of Scotland	Originating institution acronym: NHM	Molecular formula: C2 H6 O12 Zn5
Linear formula: Zn5(CO3)2(OH)6	CAS registry no: 12122-17-7	Other analytical methods: EDS (Zn only), SEM, XRD (1692F NHM std=hydrozincites)