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Section: 6 Minerals and pigments (MP) Page: 380

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Details

IRUG filename:
IMP00380
Data type:
Infrared
IRUG material class:
Minerals and pigments (MP)
Sample type:
Reference material
Common name(s):
Ikaite, possibly
Chemical/botanical name(s):
Hydrated normal carbonate (class), nesquehonite (mineral group)
Source location 1:
Barrow, Alaska, US
Sample source 2:
The Natural History Museum, National Museums of Scotland
Source location 2:
Cromwell Road, London, SW7 5BD, UK, Edinburgh, UK
Sample identifier 2:
NHM unregistered
Color:
Brown
Other:
Ikaite is unstable at room temperature and is stowed below 0 degrees C, this specimen may be partially decomposed to calcite plus water, spectrum was checked by repeating as a mull which gave an identical result
Application:
Transmission FTIR spectroscopy
Mode:
Tran
Literature Reference:
Jones, G. C., and B. Jackson. Infrared Transmission Spectra of Carbonate Minerals. London: Chapman & Hall, 1993. Kennedy, G. L., D. M. Hopkins, and W. J. Pickthorn. "Ikaite, the Glendonite Precursor, in Estuarine Sediments in Barrow, Arctic Alaska." Ed. W. R. Dickinson. Geological Societry of America, 1987 Annual Meeting and Exposition Abstracts with Programs, Geological Society of America 19.7 (1987): 725. Shaikh, A. M., and D. J. Shearman. "On Ikaite and the Morphology of Its Pseudomorphs." Geochemistry and Mineral Formation in the Earth Surface: International Meeting on Geochemistry of the Earth Surface and Processes of Mineral Formation : Selected Papers. Ed. R. Rodríguez-Clemente and Y. Tardy. Barcelona: Consejo Superior De Investigaciones Cientificas, 1987. 791-803.
Originating institution name:
Natural History Museum, National Museums of Scotland
Originating institution acronym:
NHM
Molecular formula:
C H12 Ca O9
Linear formula:
CaCO3*6H2O
Other analytical methods:
EDS, SEM, XRD