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Section: 6 Minerals and pigments (MP) Page: 348

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Details

IRUG filename:
IMP00348
Data type:
Infrared
IRUG material class:
Minerals and pigments (MP)
Sample type:
Reference material
Common name(s):
Kutnohorite
Chemical/botanical name(s):
Anhydrous normal carbonate (class), dolomite (mineral group)
Sample source 1:
Kutna Hora
Source location 1:
Prazska Zupa, Bohemia, Czechoslovakia
Sample source 2:
British Museum
Source location 2:
Great Russell Street, London, WC1B-3DG, UK
Sample identifier 2:
BM1969,283
Sample source 3:
The Natural History Museum, National Museums of Scotland
Source location 3:
Cromwell Road, London, SW7 5BD, UK, Edinburgh, UK
Color:
Pink, pale
Other:
Series w/ dolomite & ankerite, composition Ca(Mn,Mg)(CO3)2 w/ Mn:Mg=5.2 close to specimen, many are calcian rhodochrosite or magnesium calcite, 2 extra peaks 841 679 cm-1 Sadtler & Suhner spectra, distinct from dolomite, closer with calcite group
Application:
Transmission FTIR spectroscopy
Mode:
Tran
Literature Reference:
Farkas, L., B. Bolzenius, and G. Will. "Powder Diffraction Data and Unit Cell of Kutnahorite." Powder Diffraction 3.3 (1988): 172-74. Farkas, L., B. H. Bolzenius, W. Schaefer, and G. Will. "The Crystal Structure of Kutnahorite CaMn(CO3)2." Neues Jahrbuch Fur Mineralogie, Monatshefte 12 (1988): 539-46. Jones, G. C., and B. Jackson. Infrared Transmission Spectra of Carbonate Minerals. London: Chapman & Hall, 1993. Peacor, D. R., E. J. Essene, and A. M. Gaines. "Petrologic and Crystal Chemical Implications of Cation Order Disorder in Kutnahorite [CaMn(CO3)s]." American Mineralogist 72.3, 4 (1987): 319-28.
Originating institution name:
Natural History Museum, National Museums of Scotland
Originating institution acronym:
NHM
Linear formula:
Ca(Mn,Mg,Fe)(CO3)2
Other analytical methods:
EDS (Ca:Mn:Mg:Fe=1:0.8:0.2:0.1), SEM, XRD (1500 NHM std=kutnohorite)