Interactive IRUG Spectrum

Section: 6

Minerals and pigments (MP)

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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)