Interactive IRUG Spectrum

Section: 6

Minerals and pigments (MP)

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IRUG filename: IMP00435	Data type: Infrared	IRUG material class: Minerals and pigments (MP)
Sample type: Reference material	Common name(s): Alumohydrocalcite	Chemical/botanical name(s): Hydrated carbonate with hydroxyl or halogen (class)
Sample source 1: Ruben Mine	Source location 1: Nowa Ruda, Poland	Sample source 2: British Museum
Source location 2: Great Russell Street, London, WC1B-3DG, UK	Sample identifier 2: BM1937,1377	Sample source 3: The Natural History Museum, National Museums of Scotland
Source location 3: Cromwell Road, London, SW7 5BD, UK, Edinburgh, UK	Color: Lavender	Other: Spectrum is more complex i.e. better resolved, than that given in Kautz, but is otherwise identical
Application: Transmission FTIR spectroscopy	Mode: Tran	Literature Reference: Jones, G. C., and B. Jackson. Infrared Transmission Spectra of Carbonate Minerals. London: Chapman & Hall, 1993. Kautz, K. "Electron Microscope and Infrared Investigation of Alumohydrocalcite." Neues Jahrbuch Fur Mineralogie, Monatshefte No. 3 (1969): 130-37. Ryback, G. "Alumohydrocalcite from Scarborough, North Yorkshire, and Weston Favell, Northamptonshire." Journal of the Russell Society 2.1 (1988): 9-12. Srebrodol'skiy, B. I. "Aluminohydrocalcites." International Geology Revue 18.3 (1976): 321-28.
Originating institution name: Natural History Museum, National Museums of Scotland	Originating institution acronym: NHM	Linear formula: CaAl2(CO3)2(OH)4•3(H2O)
Other analytical methods: EDS (C:Al=1:1.8 + minor Si), SEM, XRD (7906F NHM std)