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Section: 6 Minerals and pigments (MP) Page: 423

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Details

IRUG filename:
IMP00423
Data type:
Infrared
IRUG material class:
Minerals and pigments (MP)
Sample type:
Reference material
Common name(s):
Leadhillite
Chemical/botanical name(s):
Compound carbonate (class), susannite (mineral group)
Source location 1:
Leadhills, Lanarkshire, Scotland, UK
Sample source 2:
Royal Museum of Scotland
Source location 2:
Chambers Street, Edinburgh, EH1 1JF, UK
Sample identifier 2:
RMS1908.13.5
Sample source 3:
The Natural History Museum, National Museums of Scotland
Source location 3:
Cromwell Road, London, SW7 5BD, UK, Edinburgh, UK
Color:
Yellow, pale
Other:
Trimorphous with susannite and macphersonite, spectrum is very similar to, but distinguishable from, those of susannite and macphersonite
Application:
Transmission FTIR spectroscopy
Mode:
Tran
Literature Reference:
Jones, G. C., and B. Jackson. Infrared Transmission Spectra of Carbonate Minerals. London: Chapman & Hall, 1993. Russell, J. D., A. E. Milodowski, A. R. Fraser, and D. R. Clark. "New IR and XRD Data for Leadhillite of Ideal Composition." Mineralogical Magazine 47.3 (1983): 371-75. Russell, J. D., A. R. Fraser, and A. Livingstone. "The Infrared Absorption Spectra of the Three Polymorphs of PbSO4(CO3)2(OH)2 (leadhillite, Susannite and Macphersonite)." Mineralogical Magazine 48.2 (1984): 295-97.
Originating institution name:
Natural History Museum, National Museums of Scotland
Originating institution acronym:
NHM
Molecular formula:
C2 H2 O12 Pb4 S
Linear formula:
Pb4(SO4)(CO3)2(OH)2
Other analytical methods:
EDS, SEM, XRD (3909 NHM std)