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A thermal study of thaumasite

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 March 2018

M. Font-Altaba*
Affiliation:
Instituto de Edafología y Fisiología Vegetal, Barcelona, Spain

Summary

A differential thermal analysis curve of thaumasite shows an endothermal peak at 206° C., correspinding to the loss of H2O and CO2, and a weak exothermal peak at 709° C., corresponding to recrystallization to a mixture of anhydrite and larnite, as is shown by X-ray powder photographs of material heated to 950° C. Improved powder data for thaumasite are given: the three strongest lines are at 9·66, 3·79, and 4·58 Å., and the cell-dimensions are a 10·992, c 10·311 Å.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © The Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland 1960

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References

The following references are additional to the bibliography of thaumasite given by Voot, T., Norsk. Geol. Tidsskr., 1938. vol. 18, p. 291, and those cited by D. C.Google Scholar
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