Interactive IRUG Spectrum

Section: 6

Minerals and pigments (MP)

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IRUG filename: IMP00387	Data type: Infrared	IRUG material class: Minerals and pigments (MP)
Sample type: Reference material	Common name(s): Dresserite	Chemical/botanical name(s): Hydrated carbonate with hydroxyl or halogen (class), alumohydrocalcite (mineral group)
Sample source 1: Francon Quarry	Source location 1: St Michel, Montreal Island, Quebec, Canada (CA)	Sample source 2: British Museum
Source location 2: Great Russell Street, London, WC1B-3DG, UK	Sample identifier 2: BM1970,200	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: Spectrum matches that given in Farrell, with the addition of extra peaks around 2900 cm-1, spectrum is similar to, but distinguishable from that of strontiodresserite
Application: Transmission FTIR spectroscopy	Mode: Tran	Literature Reference: Jones, G. C., and B. Jackson. Infrared Transmission Spectra of Carbonate Minerals. London: Chapman & Hall, 1993. Farrell, D. M. "Infrared Investigation of Basic Double Carbonate Hydrate Minerals." Canadian Mineralogist 15.3 (1977): 408-13. Jambor, J. L., D. G. Fong, and A. P. Sabina. "Dresserite, the New Barium Analogue of Dundasite." Dresserite, the New Barium Analogue of Dundasite 10.1 (1969): 84-89.
Originating institution name: Natural History Museum, National Museums of Scotland	Originating institution acronym: NHM	Molecular formula: C4 H14 Al4 Ba2 O23
Linear formula: Ba2Al4(CO3)4(OH)8*3H2O	Other analytical methods: EDS (Ba:Al=1:2.3 with trace Na, Mn, Sr), SEM, XRD (15672 NHM std=dresserite)