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Section: 6

Minerals and pigments (MP)

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IRUG filename: IMP00442	Data type: Infrared	IRUG material class: Minerals and pigments (MP)
Sample type: Reference material	Common name(s): Aragonite	Chemical/botanical name(s): Anhydrous normal carbonate (class), aragonite (mineral group), calcium carbonate
CAS name: Aragonite (Ca(CO3))	Source location 1: Molina, Aragon, Spain	Sample source 2: British Museum
Source location 2: Great Russell Street, London, WC1B-3DG, UK	Sample identifier 2: BM26522	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 w/ calcite and vaterite, matches those obtained from synthetic material and x-ray diffraction standard, typical simple orthorhombic carbonate, distinct from calcite group, compare w/ aragonite group, cerussite strontianite witherite alstonite
Application: Transmission FTIR spectroscopy	Mode: Tran	Literature Reference: Jones, G. C., and B. Jackson. Infrared Transmission Spectra of Carbonate Minerals. London: Chapman & Hall, 1993. White, W. B. "The Carbonate Minerals." The Infrared Spectra of Minerals. Ed. V. C. Farmer. Monograph 4 ed. London: Mineralogical Society of London, 1974. 227-84. French, R., E. C. Wang, and J. B. Bates. "The I.R. and Raman Spectra of CaCO3 (aragonite)." Spectrochimica Acta 36.10 (1980): 915-19. Gevork'yan, S. V., and O. S. Povarennikh. "New Infrared Spectra for Minerals in the Calcite and Aragonite Groups." Dopovidi Akademiyi Nauk Ukrayins'koyi RSR, Seriya B: Geologichni, Khimichni Ta Biologichni Nauki 11 (1983): 8-12.
Originating institution name: Natural History Museum, National Museums of Scotland	Originating institution acronym: NHM	Molecular formula: C Ca O3
Linear formula: CaCO3	CAS registry no: 14791-73-2	Other analytical methods: EDS, SEM, XRD