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Cannonite [Bi2O(SO4)(OH)2] from Alfenza (Crodo, Italy): crystal structure and morphology

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 July 2018

G. C. Capitani ,
T. Catelani ,
P. Gentile ,
A. Lucotti  and
M. Zema
G. C. Capitani*
Affiliation:
Dipartimento di Scienze dell’Ambiente e del Territorio e di Scienze della Terra, Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca, Milan, Italy
T. Catelani
Affiliation:
Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra, Università degli Studi di Firenze, Florence, Italy
P. Gentile
Affiliation:
Dipartimento di Scienze dell’Ambiente e del Territorio e di Scienze della Terra, Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca, Milan, Italy
A. Lucotti
Affiliation:
Dipartimento di Chimica, Materiali ed Ingegneria Chimica "G. Natta", Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy
M. Zema
Affiliation:
Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra e dell’Ambiente, Università degli Studi di Pavia, Pavia, Italy
*
* E-mail: giancarlo.capitani@unimib.it
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Abstract

Canonite from Alfenza grows as crowded, radiating, acicular aggregates covering bismuthinite crystals. Individual crystals have a lozenge-shaped habit on {010}, the presumed cleavage plane of cannonite. Crystal structure refinements in the P21/c space group of two single crystals led to the following cell parameters: a = 7.7196(5) Å, b = 13.8856(9), c = 5.6980(4), b = 109.174(1)º (R1 = 0.0424); and a = 7.7100(8), b = 13.8717(14), c = 5.6939(6), b = 109.155(2)º (R1 = 0.0438). Hydrogen atoms were also localized in the density-difference Fourier map and refined with soft restraints on the bond distances. Raman and IR spectroscopy confirm the presence of OH groups and the absence of molecular water, and deliver OH···O geometry wholly comparable with the structure refinement. Electron microprobe analyses revealed no significant levels of elements other than those expected in the ideal formula except fluorine which was present up to 0.14 a.p.f.u. The crystal structure can be described in terms of anion-centred OBi4 edge-sharing tetrahedra forming chains running parallel to z and strongly cemented along x by isolated SO4 tetrahedra. Each OBi4 tetrahedron is further connected along y by OH groups, making walls of composition Bi4O2(SO4)2(OH)4 parallel to (010). These walls are tied to each other along y by fewer Bi–O–S bridges and weaker OH···O bonds.

Keywords

cannoniteAlfenzaItalycrystal structureBi
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Research Article
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Mineralogical Magazine , Volume 77 , Issue 8 , December 2013 , pp. 3067 - 3079
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Copyright © The Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland 2013

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