Interactive IRUG Spectrum

Section: 6

Minerals and pigments (MP)

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IRUG filename: IMP00465	Data type: Infrared	IRUG material class: Minerals and pigments (MP)
Sample type: Reference material	Common name(s): Artinite	Chemical/botanical name(s): Hydrated carbonate with hydroxyl or halogen (class), hydromagnesite (mineral group)
CAS name: Artinite (Mg2(CO3)(OH)2.3H2O)	Sample source 1: Union Carbide Mine	Source location 1: San Benito County, California, US
Sample source 2: British Museum	Source location 2: Great Russell Street, London, WC1B-3DG, UK	Sample identifier 2: BM1973,503
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: See White (1974) for discussion of spectrum	Application: Transmission FTIR spectroscopy	Mode: Tran
Literature Reference: Jones, G. C., and B. Jackson. Infrared Transmission Spectra of Carbonate Minerals. London: Chapman & Hall, 1993., Smolin, P. P., and T. A. Ziborova. "Types of Water, Stoichiometry and Relations between Hydromanesite and Other Hydrated Magnesium Carbonates." Doklady USSR Academy of Sciences, Earth Sciences Section 226.16 (1976): 130-33., 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., White, W. B. "Infrared Characterization of Water and Hydroxyl Ion in the Basic Magnesium Carbonate Minerals." American Mineralogist 56.1, 2 (1971): 46-53.	Originating institution name: Natural History Museum, National Museums of Scotland	Originating institution acronym: NHM
Linear formula: Mg2(CO3)(OH)2*3H2O	CAS registry no: 12143-96-3	Other analytical methods: EDS (Mg with trace Na & Al), SEM, XRD (7828 NHM std)