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Section: 6 Minerals and pigments (MP) Page: 449

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Details

IRUG filename:
IMP00449
Data type:
Infrared
IRUG material class:
Minerals and pigments (MP)
Sample type:
Reference material
Common name(s):
Ankerite
Chemical/botanical name(s):
Anhydrous normal carbonate (class), dolomite (mineral group)
Source location 1:
Alston, Cumbria, UK
Sample source 2:
British Museum
Source location 2:
Great Russell Street, London, WC1B-3DG, UK
Sample identifier 2:
BM1921,723
Sample source 3:
The Natural History Museum, National Museums of Scotland
Source location 3:
Cromwell Road, London, SW7 5BD, UK, Edinburgh, UK
Color:
Yellow, white
Other:
The composition of this specimen is typical, i.e. it contains significant Mg and Mn, forms series with dolomite and kutnohorite, compare spectrum with those of other members of dolomite group, e.g. norsethite
Application:
Transmission FTIR spectroscopy
Mode:
Tran
Literature Reference:
Jones, G. C., and B. Jackson. Infrared Transmission Spectra of Carbonate Minerals. London: Chapman & Hall, 1993., Dubrowski, J. V., A. L. Channon, and S. S. J. Warne. "The Effects of Substitution in the Dolomite Ferroan Dolomite Ankerite Series as Illustration by FTIR." Neues Jahrbuch Fur Mineralogie, Monatshefte 8 (1989): 337-44., Farmer, V. C., and S. S. J. Warne. "Infrared Spectroscopic Evaluation of Iron Contents and Excess Calcium in Minerals of the Dolomite Ankerite Series." American Mineralogist 63.7, 8 (1978): 779-81.
Originating institution name:
Natural History Museum, National Museums of Scotland
Originating institution acronym:
NHM
Linear formula:
Ca(Fe,Mg,Mn)(CO3)2
Other analytical methods:
EDS (Ca:Fe:Mg:Mn=1:0.5:0.4:0.1), SEM, XRD