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Section: 6

Minerals and pigments (MP)

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IRUG filename: IMP00334	Data type: Infrared	IRUG material class: Minerals and pigments (MP)
Sample type: Reference material	Common name(s): Bastnasite-(La)	Chemical/botanical name(s): Anhydrous carbonate with hydroxyl or halogen (class), bastnasite (mineral group)
Sample source 1: Nya Bastnas	Source location 1: Riddarhyttan, Vastmanland, Sweden	Sample source 2: British Museum
Source location 2: Great Russell Street, London, WC1B-3DG, UK	Sample identifier 2: BM1946,81	Sample source 3: The Natural History Museum, National Museums of Scotland
Source location 3: Cromwell Road, London, SW7 5BD, UK, Edinburgh, UK	Color: Brown	Other: Forms a series with hydroxyl-bastnasite, spectrum shows some (OH) substitution and differs in the region 900-700 cm-1 when compared to the nearly (OH)-free bastnasite-(Ce) IR2958
Application: Transmission FTIR spectroscopy	Mode: Tran	Literature Reference: Jones, G. C., and B. Jackson. Infrared Transmission Spectra of Carbonate Minerals. London: Chapman & Hall, 1993. Adler, H. H., and P. F. Kerr. "Infrared Spectra, Symmetry and Structure Relations of Some Carbonate Minerals." American Mineralogist 48 (1963): 839-53. Akhmanova, M. N., and L. P. Orlova. "Investigation of Rare-earth Carbonates by Infra-red Spectroscopy." Geochemistry International 3.3 (1966): 444-51. Akhmanova, M. N., and L. P. Orlova. "Investigation of Rare-earth Carbonates by Infra-red Spectroscopy." Geokhimiya No. 5 (1966): 571-578. Donnay, G., and J. D. H. Donnay. "The Crystallography of Bastnasite, Parisite, Rontgenite and Synchysite." American Mineralogist 38.11, 12 (1953): 932-36.
Originating institution name: Natural History Museum, National Museums of Scotland	Originating institution acronym: NHM	Linear formula: (La,Ce)(CO3)F
Other analytical methods: EDS (La:Ce:Nd=0.5:0.4:0.1 with trace Ce, Al, Si, Ba), SEM, XRD (4976 NHM std=bastnasite group)