Interactive IRUG Spectrum

Details

IRUG filename:
IMP00357
Data type:
Infrared
IRUG material class:
Minerals and pigments (MP)
Sample type:
Reference material
Common name(s):
Dypingite
Chemical/botanical name(s):
Hydrated carbonate with hydroxyl or halogen (class), hydromagnesite (mineral group)
Sample source 1:
Brosso
Source location 1:
Ivrea, Piemonte, Italy
Sample source 2:
British Museum
Sample identifier 2:
BM1978,500
Sample source 3:
The Natural History Museum, National Museums of Scotland
Source location 3:
Cromwell Road, London, SW7 5BD, UK, Edinburgh, UK
Color:
White
Application:
Transmission FTIR spectroscopy
Mode:
Tran
Literature Reference:
Jones, G. C., and B. Jackson. Infrared Transmission Spectra of Carbonate Minerals. London: Chapman & Hall, 1993. Canterford, J. H., G. Tsambourakis, and R. Lambert. "Some Observations on the Properties of Dypingite, Mg5(CO3)4(OH)2*5H2O and Related Minerals." Mineralogical Magazine 43.348 (1984): 437-42. Raade, G. "Dypingite, a New Hydrous Basic Carbonate of Magnesium, from Norway." American Mineralogist 55 (1970): 1457-465. Smolin, P. P., and T. A. Ziborova. "Types of Water, Stoichiometry and Relations between Hydromanganesite and Other Hydrated Magnesium Carbonates." Doklady-Academy of Sciences of the USSR, Earth Sciences Section 226.16 (1976): 130-33.
Originating institution name:
Natural History Museum, National Museums of Scotland
Originating institution acronym:
NHM
Molecular formula:
C4 H12 Mg5 O19
Linear formula:
Mg5(CO3)4(OH)2*5H2O
Other analytical methods:
EDS (Mg with trace S), SEM, XRD (7857F=dypingite or very near NHM std)