Interactive IRUG Spectrum

Section: 6

Minerals and pigments (MP)

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IRUG filename: IMP00421	Data type: Infrared	IRUG material class: Minerals and pigments (MP)
Sample type: Reference material	Common name(s): Hydrocerussite	Chemical/botanical name(s): Anhydrous carbonate with hydroxyl or halogen (class), hydrocerussite (mineral group)
Sample source 1: Merehead Quarry	Source location 1: Mendip Hills, Somerset, UK	Sample source 2: British Museum
Source location 2: Great Russell Street, London, WC1B-3DG, UK	Sample identifier 2: BM1970,108	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 from NHM, x-ray standard, BM 1923,724 (Priddy, Somerset), and is easily distinguished from that of cerussite
Application: Transmission FTIR spectroscopy	Mode: Tran	Literature Reference: Bessiere-Morandat, J., V. Lorenzelli, and J. Lecomte. "Determinism and Attribution of Infrared Active Vibrations of Some Basic Carbonates." Determination and Attribution of Infrared Active Vibrations of Some Basic Carbonates 31 (1970): 309-12., Bilinski, H., and P. Schindler. "Solubility and Equilibrium Constants of Lead in Carbonate Solutions." Geochimica Et Cosmochimica Acta 46.6 (1982): 921-28., 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: H2C2O8Pb3
Linear formula: Pb3(CO3)2(OH)2	Other analytical methods: EDS, SEM, XRD (the spectrum matches that from NHM, x-ray standard, BM 1923,724 (Priddy, Somerset), and is easily distinguished from that of cerussite)