Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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4701305 | Chemical Geology | 2006 | 13 Pages |
Abstract
Powder IR absorption spectroscopy has been used to characterise cation substitutions in three garnet solid solutions: grossular-andradite, skiagite-andradite and skiagite-almandine. The wavenumber shift of the highest energy mode associated with tetrahedral vibrations depends on the type of cation occupying the adjacent sites in the structure. The wavenumber shifts exhibit positive deviations from linearity that correlate closely with the variations of the Si-O bond distances for all three garnet solid solutions. The autocorrelation function has been used to determine an effective line width (Îcorr) of the absorption bands over a given spectral region. Non-linear behaviour of Îcorr was found for all three solid solutions. An empirical calibration between Îcorr excess and calorimetric enthalpy of mixing data gives an estimate for the symmetric Margules parameters WspecH of the three solid solutions. Comparison with the systematics of aluminosilicate garnets in terms of WspecH vs. ÎV2, where ÎV represents the difference in molar volume between the end members in a binary system, reveals that such a relationship is not generally applicable to garnet solid solutions with an octahedral cation other than Al.
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Authors
Tiziana Boffa Ballaran, Alan B. Woodland,