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Mössbauer spectra of α- and γ-polymorphs of FeOOH and Fe2O3 : effects of poor crystallinity and of Al-for-Fe substitution

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 July 2018

E. De Grave ,
C. A. Barrero ,
G. M. Da Costa ,
R. E. Vandenberghe  and
E. Van San
E. De Grave*
Affiliation:
Department of Subatomic and Radiation Physics, Division NUMAT, University of Ghent, B-9000 Ghent, Belgium
C. A. Barrero*
Affiliation:
Department of Subatomic and Radiation Physics, Division NUMAT, University of Ghent, B-9000 Ghent, Belgium
G. M. Da Costa*
Affiliation:
Department of Subatomic and Radiation Physics, Division NUMAT, University of Ghent, B-9000 Ghent, Belgium
R. E. Vandenberghe
Affiliation:
Department of Subatomic and Radiation Physics, Division NUMAT, University of Ghent, B-9000 Ghent, Belgium
E. Van San
Affiliation:
Department of Subatomic and Radiation Physics, Division NUMAT, University of Ghent, B-9000 Ghent, Belgium
*
*E-mail: eddy.degrave@rug.ac.be
†Present address:, Institute of Physics, University of Antioquia, A.A. 1226 Medellin, Colombia
‡Present address: Department of Chemistry, Federal University of Ouro Preto, MGBrazil
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Abstract

This paper presents various aspects, revealed by Mössbauer spectroscopy, of structural and magnetic properties of Al-substituted small-particle soil-related oxides. For goethite we focus on the relations between the hyperfine fields on the one hand, and crystallinity and Al content on the other. It is argued that these relations only provide a rough estimate of the Al content in natural samples. The ferrimagnetic-like behaviour reflected in the external-field Mössbauer spectra (4.2 K, 60 kOe) of certain Al goethites is presented. The spectra obtained for lepidocrocites are not spectacular, but confirmed that up to ∼10 at.% Al can be incorporated in the structure. Three differently-made series of hematites are considered. The Morin transition and spin structures in hematite are very sensitive to crystallinity and Al content, and probably to the presence of structural OH–. Integral low-energy electron Mössbauer spectroscopy on non-substituted samples indicates that the Morin-transition temperature in the surface layers (2 to 5 nm) is not significantly shifted from the bulk value. Measurements in extremely high magnetic fields (140 kOe) have shown that a spin-flip transition is induced in highly-substituted samples which exhibit no Morin transition in zero field. The use of external fields is crucial for the characterization and precise determination of the hyperfine parameters and site occupancies for maghemites, and for phase analyses of magnetic soils.

Keywords

Mössbauer spectroscopygoethitehematitemaghemiteAl substitutionssoils
Type
Research Article
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Clay Minerals , Volume 37 , Issue 4 , December 2002 , pp. 591 - 606
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Copyright © The Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland 2002

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