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Synthesis, properties, and dehydroxylation of members of the crandallite-goyazite series

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 July 2018

R. J. Gilkes
Affiliation:
Department of Soil Science and Plant Nutrition, University of Western Australia, Nedlands, Western Australia, 6009, Australia
B. Palmer
Affiliation:
Department of Soil Science and Plant Nutrition, University of Western Australia, Nedlands, Western Australia, 6009, Australia

Abstract

Unit-cell parameters of synthesized members of the crandallite (a = 7.007 Å, c = 16.216 Å)-goyazite (a = 7.013 Å, c = 16.650 Å) series vary linearly with composition between end-members. Most members of the series consist of 0.1 μm platy crystals, but crandallite also contains some larger (1–5 µm) tapered crystals elongated along the c axis.

With increasing Sr substitution the dehydroxylation temperature decreases from c. 475 °C for crandallite to 420 °C at 20 mole % Sr, and then increases to 440 °C for goyazite. Partial dehydroxylation of crandallite is accompanied by contraction of the c unit cell parameter and expansion of a, thereby retaining an unaltered unit cell volume. The much greater sensitivity of c to both Sr substitution and dehydroxylation may be due to the rigidity of continuous sheets of Al(OH)4O2 octahedra which are parallel to the (001) plane in these minerals.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © The Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland 1983

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