Section: 6 | Minerals and pigments (MP) | Page: 432 |
IRUG filename: IMP00432 | Data type: Infrared | IRUG material class: Minerals and pigments (MP) |
Sample type: Reference material | Common name(s): Synchysite-(Y) (doverite) | Chemical/botanical name(s): Anhydrous carbonate with hydroxyl or halogen (class), bastnasite (mineral group) |
Sample source 1: Mont St. Hilaire | Source location 1: Quebec, Canada | Sample source 2: Royal Museum of Scotland |
Source location 2: Chambers Street, Edinburgh, EH1 1JF, UK | Sample identifier 2: RMS1980.49.11 | Sample source 3: The Natural History Museum, National Museums of Scotland |
Source location 3: Cromwell Road, London, SW7 5BD, UK, Edinburgh, UK | Other: Spectrum resembles that of bastnasite | Application: Transmission FTIR spectroscopy |
Mode: Tran | Literature Reference: Jones, G. C., and B. Jackson. Infrared Transmission Spectra of Carbonate Minerals. London: Chapman & Hall, 1993., Scharm, B., and P. Kuhn. "Synchisite: (Nd), Ca(Nd, Y, Gd,) [F/(CO3)2], a New Mineral." Neues Jahrbuch Fur Mineralogie, Monatshefte 5 (1983): 201-10., Yukhtanov, P. P., and Y. V. Burlakov. "Ankylite and Synchisite from Crystal Bearing Pockets in the Polar Urals Region." Ed. N. P. Yushkin and B. A. Ostashchenko. Minerals and Mineral Formation, Trudy Institut Geologii 50 (1985): 99-104. | Originating institution name: Natural History Museum, National Museums of Scotland |
Originating institution acronym: NHM | Linear formula: Ca(Y,Ce)(CO3)2F | Other analytical methods: EDS, SEM, XRD (4156 NHM std) |