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The crystal structure of ammoniojarosite, (NH4)Fe3(SO4)W(OH)6 and the crystal chemistry of the ammoniojarosite–hydronium jarosite solid-solution series

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 July 2018

L. C. Basciano  and
R. C. Peterson
L. C. Basciano*
Affiliation:
Department of Geological Sciences and Geological Engineering, Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada, K7L 3N6
R. C. Peterson
Affiliation:
Department of Geological Sciences and Geological Engineering, Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada, K7L 3N6
*
E-mail: basciano@students.geol.queensu.ca
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Abstract

The atomic structure of ammoniojarosite,[(NH4)Fe3(SO4)2(OH)6], a = 7.3177(3) Å, c = 17.534(1) Å, space group Rm, Z = 3, has been solved using single-crystal X-ray diffraction (XRD) to wR 3.64% and R 1.4%. The atomic coordinates of the hydrogen atoms of the NH4 group were located and it was found that the ammonium group has two different orientations with equal probability. Hydronium commonly substitutes into jarosite group mineral structures and samples in the ammoniojarosite–hydronium jarosite solid-solution series were synthesized and analysed using powder XRD and Rietveld refinement. Changes in unit-cell dimensions and bond lengths are noted across the solidsolution series. The end-member ammoniojarosite synthesized in this study has no hydronium substitution in the A site and the unit-cell dimensions determined have a smaller a dimension and larger c dimension than previous studies. Two natural ammoniojarosite samples were analysed and shown to have similar unit-cell dimensions to the synthetic samples. Short-wave infrared and Fourier transform infrared spectra were collected for samples from the NH4–H3O jarosite solid-solution series and the differences between the end-members were significant. Both are useful tools for determining NH4 content in jarosite group minerals.

Keywords

ammoniojarositeammoniojarosite–hydronium jarosite solid-solution seriescrystal synthesisIR spectroscopySWIRcrystal structureXRDRietveld refinement
Type
Research Article
Information
Mineralogical Magazine , Volume 71 , Issue 4 , August 2007 , pp. 427 - 441
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Copyright © The Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland 2007

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