Interactive IRUG Spectrum

Section: 6

Minerals and pigments (MP)

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Details

IRUG filename: IMP00360	Data type: Infrared	IRUG material class: Minerals and pigments (MP)
Sample type: Reference material	Common name(s): Donnayite-(Y)	Chemical/botanical name(s): Hydrated normal carbonate (class), mckelveyite (mineral group)
Sample source 1: Mont St. Hilaire	Source location 1: Quebec, Canada (CA)	Sample source 2: Royal Museum of Scotland
Source location 2: Chambers Street, Edinburgh, EH1 1JF, UK	Sample identifier 2: RMS unregistered	Sample source 3: The Natural History Museum, National Museums of Scotland
Source location 3: Cromwell Road, London, SW7 5BD, UK, Edinburgh, UK	Other: Spectrum is similar to that of welloganite and mckelveyite	Application: Transmission FTIR spectroscopy
Mode: Tran	Literature Reference: Jones, G. C., and B. Jackson. Infrared Transmission Spectra of Carbonate Minerals. London: Chapman & Hall, 1993. Chao, G. Y., P. R. Mainwaring, and J. Baker. "Donnayite, NaCaSr3Y(CO3)6*3H2), a New Mineral from Mont St Hilaire, Quebec." Canadian Mineralogist 16.3 (1978): 335-40. Thi, T. T. L., Ye. A. Pobedimskaya, T. N. Nadezhina, and A. P. Khomyakov. "The Crystal Structures of Alkaline Carbonates: Barentsite, Bonshtedtite and Donnayite." Acta Crystallographica, (A): Foundations of Crystallography 40.Supplement (1978): 335-40.	Originating institution name: Natural History Museum, National Museums of Scotland
Originating institution acronym: NHM	Molecular formula: C6 H6 Ca Na O21 Sr3 Y	Linear formula: NaCaSr3Y(CO3)6*3H2O
Other analytical methods: EDS, SEM, XRD (4556 NHM std)