Interactive IRUG Spectrum

Section: 6

Minerals and pigments (MP)

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IRUG filename: IMP00444	Data type: Infrared	IRUG material class: Minerals and pigments (MP)
Sample type: Reference material	Common name(s): Smithsonite	Chemical/botanical name(s): Anhydrous normal carbonate (class), calcite (mineral group)
CAS name: Smithsonite (Zn(CO3))	Source location 1: Kabwe, Zambia	Sample source 2: British Museum
Source location 2: Great Russell Street, London, WC1B-3DG, UK	Sample identifier 2: BM1929,1648	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: Compare spectrum with those of other members of the calcite 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., Braithwaite, R. S., and G. Ryback. "Rosasite, Aurichalcite, and Associated Minerals from Heights of Abraham, Matlock Bath, Derbyshire, with a Note on Infra-red Spectra." Mineralogical Magazine 33 (1963): 441-49., Chester, R., and H. Elderfield. "The Application of Infra-red Absorption Spectroscopy to Carbonate Mineralogy." Sedimentology 9 (1967): 5307-309., 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.
Originating institution name: Natural History Museum, National Museums of Scotland	Originating institution acronym: NHM	Molecular formula: C O3 Zn
Linear formula: ZnCO3	CAS registry no: 14476-25-6	Other analytical methods: EDS (Zn only), SEM, XRD (8273 NHM std)