Interactive IRUG Spectrum

Section: 6

Minerals and pigments (MP)

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IRUG filename: IMP00448	Data type: Infrared	IRUG material class: Minerals and pigments (MP)
Sample type: Reference material	Common name(s): Cerussite	Chemical/botanical name(s): Anhydrous normal carbonate (class), aragonite (mineral group)
CAS name: Cerussite (Pb(CO3))	Source location 1: Tsumeb, Namibia	Sample source 2: British Museum
Source location 2: Great Russell Street, London, WC1B-3DG, UK	Sample identifier 2: BM1926,187	Sample source 3: The Natural History Museum, National Museums of Scotland
Source location 3: Cromwell Road, London, SW7 5BD, UK, Edinburgh, UK	Color: Gray	Other: Compare spectrum with that from other members of the aragonite group.
Application: Transmission FTIR spectroscopy	Mode: Tran	Literature Reference: 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., Grisafe, D. A., and W. B. White. "Phase Relations in the System PbO CO2 and the Decomposition of Cerissite." American Mineralogist 49.9, 10 (1964): 1184-198., 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.
Originating institution name: Natural History Museum, National Museums of Scotland	Originating institution acronym: NHM	Molecular formula: C O3 Pb
Linear formula: PbCO3	CAS registry no: 14476-15-4	Other analytical methods: EDS (Pb only), SEM, XRD