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Refinement of the Crystal Structure of Cronstedtite-3T

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 February 2024

Ľubomír Smrčok ,
Slavomil Ďurovič ,
Václav Petříček  and
Zdeněk Weiss
Ľubomír Smrčok
Affiliation:
Institute of Inorganic Chemistry, Slovak Academy of Sciences, 842 36, Bratislava, Czechoslovakia
Slavomil Ďurovič
Affiliation:
Institute of Inorganic Chemistry, Slovak Academy of Sciences, 842 36, Bratislava, Czechoslovakia
Václav Petříček
Affiliation:
Institute of Physics, Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences, 162 00, Prague, Czechoslovakia
Zdeněk Weiss
Affiliation:
Technical University of Mining and Metalurgy, 708 33 Ostrava-Poruba, Czechoslovakia
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Abstract

The crystal structure of cronstedtite-3T from Kutná Hora (Bohemia, Czechoslovakia), space group P31, was refined to Rw(all) = 3.1% for 1336 independent diffractions. There are two and three independent tetrahedral and octahedral positions, respectively, in this structure. The tetrahedra are occupied by 0.75 Si and 0.25 Fe while the octahedra are uniformly occupied by Fe. The refinement process was hindered by two problems: a “strong” superposition structure (all atoms of the octahedral sheets, i.e., ÷ 70% of the total diffraction power contribute almost solely to the family diffractions with mod(h–k, 3) = 0), and a slight disorder of the investigated crystal. The first problem was resolved by a preliminary block-diagonal refinement procedure where the atoms coinciding in the superposition structure were separated into individual blocks. The second problem was resolved by including two scale factors into the final full-matrix refinement: one for family diffractions, the other for the remaining ones which are characteristic for this polytype.

Keywords

CronstedtiteOrder-disorder (OD)Polytypism
Type
Research Article
Information
Clays and Clay Minerals , Volume 42 , Issue 5 , October 1994 , pp. 544 - 551
Copyright
Copyright © 1994, Clay Minerals Society

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