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The low-temperature behaviour of cancrinite:an in situ single-crystal X-ray diffraction study

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 July 2018

G. Diego Gatta ,
P. Lotti ,
V. Kahlenberg  and
U. Haefeker
G. Diego Gatta*
Affiliation:
Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra, Università degli Studi di Milano, Via Botticelli 23, I-20133 Milano, Italy CNR-Istituto per la Dinamica dei Processi Ambientali, Milano, Italy
P. Lotti
Affiliation:
Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra, Università degli Studi di Milano, Via Botticelli 23, I-20133 Milano, Italy
V. Kahlenberg
Affiliation:
Institut für Mineralogie und Petrographie, Leopold Franzens Universität Innsbruck, Innrain 52, A - 6020 Innsbruck, Austria
U. Haefeker
Affiliation:
Institut für Mineralogie und Petrographie, Leopold Franzens Universität Innsbruck, Innrain 52, A - 6020 Innsbruck, Austria
*
*E-mail: diego.gatta@unimi.it
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Abstract

The low-temperature structural behaviour of natural cancrinite with a formula Na6.59Ca0.93[Si6.12Al5.88O24](CO3)1.04F0.41·2H2O has been investigated by means of in situ single-crystal X-ray diffraction and Raman spectroscopy. High quality structure refinements were obtained at 293, 250, 220, 180, 140, 100 and at 293 K again (at the end of the low-T experiments). The variation in the unit-cell volume as a function of temperature (T) exhibits a continuous trend, without any evident thermoelastic anomaly. The thermal expansion coefficient αV = (1/V)∂V/∂T is 3.8(7) × 10–5 K–1 (between 100 and 293 K). The structure refinement based on intensity data collected at ambient conditions after the low-T experiment confirmed that the low-T induced deformation processes are completely reversible. The extraframework population does not show significant variations down to 100 K. The strong positional disorder of the carbonate groups along the c axis persists within the T range investigated. The structural behaviour of cancrinite at low-T is mainly governed by the continuous framework rearrangement through the ditrigonalization of the six-membered rings which lie in a plane perpendicular to [0001], the contraction of the four-membered ring joint units, the decrease of the ring corrugation in the (0001) plane, and the flattening of the cancrinite cages. A list of the principal Raman active modes in ambient conditions is provided and discussed.

Keywords

cancrinitelow temperaturesingle-crystal X-ray diffractionstructure refinement
Type
Research Article
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Mineralogical Magazine , Volume 76 , Issue 4 , August 2012 , pp. 933 - 948
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Copyright © The Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland 2012

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