Hostname: page-component-78c5997874-8bhkd Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-11-10T15:12:53.619Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

The mineralogy and chemistry of the nickel carbonates

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 March 2018

T. Isaacs
T. Isaacs*
Affiliation:
Department of Geology, The University, Sheffield
Get access Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Summary

Nickel carbonate occurs in nature as a hexahydrate (hellyerite) and as a hydroxyhydrate (zaratite), but the anhydrous species is only known as an artificial product. All of the compounds show anomalous properties that have led to confusion in the literature.

Only the calcite structure was found for NiCO3 ; hydrothermal conditions appear to be essential for its synthesis, and a variation in cell size was found with changes in duration or temperature of synthesis, or both.

Hellyerite probably is [Ni(H2O)6]CO3, which would explain its ease of decomposition and rarity in nature. Zaratite is not a single mineral, but a composite of amorphous and fibrous components. The conditions under which NiCO3 might be expected to occur are discussed. Nickel bicarbonate formed in the reactions to produce NiCO3 ; its X-ray diffraction pattern, indicating cubic symmetry, analysis, and optical properties are given.

The behaviour of nickel in these compounds is best explained in terms of crystal field theory.

Type
Research Article
Information
Mineralogical magazine and journal of the Mineralogical Society , Volume 33 , Issue 263 , December 1963 , pp. 663 - 678
Copyright
Copyright © 1963, The Mineralogical Society

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

Bizette, (H.) and LanglèS (DEL.), 1950. Bull. Sec. Chim. France, M1041.Google Scholar
Fenoglio, (M.), 1934. Periodico Min., vol. 5, p. 33.and p. 265.[M.A. 5-472; 6-55].Google Scholar
Ferrari, (A.) and Colla, (C.), 1929. Atti (Rend.) Accad. Lincei, vol. 10, p. 594.Google Scholar
Goldschmidt, (V.M.), 1954. Geochemistry. Oxford (Clarendon Press). (Annales Inst. Mines, Leningrad), vol. 11, p. 1.; abstr, in M.A. 9-267.Google Scholar
Krustinsons, (J.), 1933. Zeits. anorg. Chem., vol. 212, p. 45.Google Scholar
LanglèS, (D. I. ), 1952. Ann. Chim. (Paris), ser. 1., vol. 7, p. 568.Google Scholar
Maksdiović, (M.), 1952. (Recueil des Travaux Académie Serbo des Sciences., vol. 23, Institut de G∼ologie, No. 4, p. 21.; abstr, in M.A. 12-157.Google Scholar
Maksdiović, (M.), and Stupar, (J.), 1953. Ibid., vol. 33, p. 220.; abstr, in M.A. :12-341.Google Scholar
Mason, (B.), 1958. Introduction to Geochemistry, New York (John Wiley & Sons, Inc.).Google Scholar
Meixner, (H.), 1962. Fortschr. Min., vol. 40, p. 60.Google Scholar
Muller, (E.) and Luber, (A.), 1930. Zeits. anorg. Chem., vol. 187, p. 209.Google Scholar
Muller, (E.) 1930. Ibid., vol. 190, p. 427.Google Scholar
Pistorius, (C.F.W.), 1959. Experienti., vol. 15, p. 328.Google Scholar
Rankama, (K.) and Sahama (Th. G.), 1950. Geochemistry, Chicago (University of Chicago Press).Google Scholar
Rossetti-FrançOis, (J.), 1952. Cempt. Rend. Acad. Sci. Pari., vol. 234, p. 840.Google Scholar
Sénarmont, (M.H. De), 1850. Ann. Chim. Phys., ser.., vol. 30, p. 129.Google Scholar
Sénarmont (M.H. De), , 1851. Ibid., vol. 32, p. 129.Google Scholar
SrEbrow, (B.), 1935. Kolloid Zeits, voL. 71, p. 293.Google Scholar
Williams, (K.), Threadgold) (I- M.), and Hounslow, (A.M.), 1959. Amer. Min., vol. 44, p. 533.[M.A. 14-414].Google Scholar