Interactive IRUG Spectrum

Section: 6

Minerals and pigments (MP)

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IRUG filename: IMP00373	Data type: Infrared	IRUG material class: Minerals and pigments (MP)
Sample type: Reference material	Common name(s): Bayleyite	Chemical/botanical name(s): Hydrated normal carbonate (class), rutherfordine (mineral group)
Sample source 1: Homestake Mine	Source location 1: Ambrosia Lakes, McKinley County, New Mexico (NM), US	Sample source 2: British Museum
Source location 2: Great Russell Street, London, WC1B-3DG, UK	Sample identifier 2: BM1963,389	Sample source 3: The Natural History Museum, National Museums of Scotland
Source location 3: Cromwell Road, London, SW7 5BD, UK, Edinburgh, UK	Color: Yellow, bright	Other: Spectrum is similar to that of liebigite
Application: Transmission FTIR spectroscopy	Mode: Tran	Literature Reference: Jones, G. C., and B. Jackson. Infrared Transmission Spectra of Carbonate Minerals. London: Chapman & Hall, 1993., Axelrod, J. M., F. S. Grimaldi, C. Milton, and K. J. Murata. "The Uranium Minerals from the Hillside Mine, Yavapai County, Arizona." American Mineralogist 36 (1951): 10. , Mayer, H., and K. Mereiter. "Synthetic Bayleyite, Mg2(UO2)(CO3)3." Tschermaks Mineralogische Und Petrographische Mitteilungen 35.2 (1986): 133-46.
Originating institution name: Natural History Museum, National Museums of Scotland	Originating institution acronym: NHM	Molecular formula: C3 Mg2 O11 U
Linear formula: Mg2(UO2)(CO3)3	Other analytical methods: EDS (Mg:U 1.5:1 with trace Si & S), SEM, XRD (391F NHM std)