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Structural Fe3+ in Natural Kaolinites: New Insights from Electron Paramagnetic Resonance Spectra Fitting at X and Q-Band Frequencies

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 February 2024

Etienne Balan ,
Thierry Allard ,
Bruno Boizot ,
Guillaume Morin  and
Jean-Pierre Muller
Etienne Balan
Affiliation:
Laboratoire de Minéralogie-Cristallographie, UMR 7590, CNRS, Universités Paris 6 et 7 and IPGP Case 115, 4 Place Jussieu, 75252 Paris Cedex 05, France
Thierry Allard
Affiliation:
Laboratoire de Minéralogie-Cristallographie, UMR 7590, CNRS, Universités Paris 6 et 7 and IPGP Case 115, 4 Place Jussieu, 75252 Paris Cedex 05, France
Bruno Boizot
Affiliation:
Laboratoire de Minéralogie-Cristallographie, UMR 7590, CNRS, Universités Paris 6 et 7 and IPGP Case 115, 4 Place Jussieu, 75252 Paris Cedex 05, France
Guillaume Morin
Affiliation:
Laboratoire de Minéralogie-Cristallographie, UMR 7590, CNRS, Universités Paris 6 et 7 and IPGP Case 115, 4 Place Jussieu, 75252 Paris Cedex 05, France
Jean-Pierre Muller
Affiliation:
Laboratoire de Minéralogie-Cristallographie, UMR 7590, CNRS, Universités Paris 6 et 7 and IPGP Case 115, 4 Place Jussieu, 75252 Paris Cedex 05, France IRD, 213 rue Lafayette, 75480 Paris Cedex 10, France
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Abstract

Structural Fe3+ in kaolinites and dickites covering a broad range of disorder was investigated using electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) spectroscopy at both the X and Q-band frequencies. A procedure based on a numerical diagonalization of the spin Hamiltonian was used to accurately determine the second and fourth-order fine-structure parameters. A least-squares fitting method was also developed to model the EPR spectra of Fe3+ ions in disordered local environments, including multimodal site-to-site distributions. Satisfactory fits between calculated and observed X and Q-band spectra were obtained regardless of the stacking order of the samples.

In well-ordered kaolinite, Fe3+ ions are equally substituted in sites of axial symmetry (Fe(II)sites, namely Fe(II)a and Fe(II)b) which were determined to be the two non-equivalent Al1 and Al2 sites of the kaolinite structure. In dickite, Fe3+ ions were also found to be equally substituted for Al3+ in the two non-equivalent Al sites of the dickite structure. In poorly ordered kaolinites, the distribution of the fine-structure parameters indicates that Fe3+ ions are distributed between Fe(II) sites and other sites with the symmetry of the dickite sites.

Hence, when stacking disorder prevails over local perturbations of the structure, the near isotropic resonance owing to Fe3+ ions in rhombically distorted sites (Fe(I) sites) is a diagnostic feature for the occurrence of C-layers in the kaolinite structure, where C refers to a specific distribution of vacant octahedral sites in successive layers.

Keywords

DickiteDisorderEPRFe3+Kaolinite
Type
Research Article
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Clays and Clay Minerals , Volume 47 , Issue 5 , October 1999 , pp. 605 - 616
Copyright
Copyright © 1999, The Clay Minerals Society

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