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Section: 6 Minerals and pigments (MP) Page: 408

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Details

IRUG filename:
IMP00408
Data type:
Infrared
IRUG material class:
Minerals and pigments (MP)
Sample type:
Reference material
Common name(s):
Otavite
Chemical/botanical name(s):
Anhydrous normal carbonate (class), calcite (mineral group)
Source location 1:
Otavi, Tsumeb, Namibia
Sample source 2:
British Museum
Source location 2:
Great Russell Street, London, WC1B-3DG, UK
Sample identifier 2:
BM1914,1070
Sample source 3:
The Natural History Museum, National Museums of Scotland
Source location 3:
Cromwell Road, London, SW7 5BD, UK, Edinburgh, UK
Color:
White
Other:
Spectrum is a close match with that of synthetic cadmium carbonate, compare with those 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. 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:
C Cd O3
Linear formula:
CdCO3
Other analytical methods:
EDS (Cd with trace Pb), SEM, XRD (7401F NHM std)