Interactive IRUG Spectrum

Section: 6

Minerals and pigments (MP)

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IRUG filename: IMP00414	Data type: Infrared	IRUG material class: Minerals and pigments (MP)
Sample type: Reference material	Common name(s): Indigirite, possibly	Chemical/botanical name(s): Hydrated carbonate with hydroxyl or halogen (class)
Sample source 1: Sarylakh deposit, Indigirki River	Source location 1: Yakutia, Yakutskya, Russia (RU)	Sample source 2: British Museum
Source location 2: Great Russell Street, London, WC1B-3DG, UK	Sample identifier 2: BM1974,521	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: "an inadequately described species" -Fleischer
Application: Transmission FTIR spectroscopy	Mode: Tran	Literature Reference: Fleischer, M. "New Mineral Names." American Mineralogist 57 (1972): 325-29. Indolev, L. N., Yu. Ya. Zhdanov, K. I. Kashirtseva, V. S. Suknev, and K. I. Del'yanidi. "Magnesium and Aluminum Hydrocarbonate: A New Indighirite." Zapiski Vsesoiuznoe Mineralogischeskoe Obshchestvo 100.2 (1971): 178-83. Jones, G. C., and B. Jackson. Infrared Transmission Spectra of Carbonate Minerals. London: Chapman & Hall, 1993.
Originating institution name: Natural History Museum, National Museums of Scotland	Originating institution acronym: NHM	Molecular formula: C4 H32 Al2 Mg2 O29
Linear formula: Mg2Al2(CO3)4(OH)12*15H2O	Other analytical methods: EDS (Mg:Al=1.2:1 ? with minor Si, Ca, P and trace Na & Fe), SEM, XRD