Interactive IRUG Spectrum

Details

IRUG filename:
IMP00475
Data type:
Infrared
IRUG material class:
Minerals and pigments (MP)
Sample type:
Reference material
Common name(s):
Paralstonite
Chemical/botanical name(s):
Anhydrous normal carbonate (class), aragonite (mineral group)
Sample source 1:
Minerva Mine, Cave-in-Rock
Source location 1:
Hardin County, Illinois, US
Sample source 2:
British Museum
Source location 2:
Great Russell Street, London, WC1B-3DG, UK
Sample identifier 2:
BM1972,254
Sample source 3:
The Natural History Museum, National Museums of Scotland
Source location 3:
Cromwell Road, London, SW7 5BD, UK, Edinburgh, UK
Color:
Colorless
Other:
Trimorphous with alstonite and barytocalcite, spectrum is distinguishable from that of alstonite only in the 700 cm-1 region
Application:
Transmission FTIR spectroscopy
Mode:
Tran
Literature Reference:
Jones, G. C., and B. Jackson. Infrared Transmission Spectra of Carbonate Minerals. London: Chapman & Hall, 1993. Effenberger, H. "Die Kristallstruktur Des Minerals Paralstonit, BaCa(Co3)2 (The Crystal Structure of Paralstonite)." Neues Jahrbuch Fur Mineralogie, Monatshefte (1980): 353-63. Roberts, A. C. "Paralstonite: A New Mineral from the Minerva No. 1 Mine, Cave in Rock, Illinois." Papers, Geological Survey of Canada, Current Research, Part C 79.1, C (1979): 99-100.
Originating institution name:
Natural History Museum, National Museums of Scotland
Originating institution acronym:
NHM
Molecular formula:
C2 Ba Ca O6
Linear formula:
BaCa(CO3)2
Other analytical methods:
EDS (Ba & Ca only), SEM, XRD (8146F NHM std)