Title

Far Infrared Spectroscopy Of Carbonate Minerals

Keywords

Carbonate minerals; Far infrared; IR spectroscopy; Transmittance spectra

Abstract

This study presents far infrared spectra in the range 650-70 cm -1 of 18 common and rare carbonate minerals. Mineral samples of known provenance are selected and physically characterized to determine the purity of the crystalline phase and their composition. The fine ground mineral powders are embedded in polyethylene pellets, and their transmittance spectra are collected with a Fourier spectrometer. The far infrared spectra of different carbonate minerals from the same structural group have well-defined similarities. Observed shifts generally manifest the mass effect of the constituent metal cations. Remarkable spectral differences occur for different carbonates in the far IR region and may serve as fingerprints for mineral identification and are more useful identifiers of carbonate species than those in any other infrared range. For some of the minerals studied here, like kutnohorite, artinite, gaylussite, and trona, no far infrared spectra to that extend (up to 70 cm-1) have been found in literature.

Publication Date

1-1-2010

Publication Title

American Mineralogist

Volume

95

Issue

10

Number of Pages

1515-1522

Document Type

Article

Personal Identifier

scopus

DOI Link

https://doi.org/10.2138/am.2010.3380

Socpus ID

77957586293 (Scopus)

Source API URL

https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/77957586293

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