The högbomite polytypes

Author(s):  
Duncan McKie

SummarySingle crystal X-ray examination has shown that högbomite forms a series of polytypes, designated nH or nR, with hexagonal or rhombohedral lattices and hexagonal unit-cell dimensions a 5·72 Å, c 4·6 × n Å. The polytypes arise by variation, in a manner as yet undetermined, of the stacking sequence of approximately close-packed oxygen layers with interstitial cations on fourfold and on sixfold sites; the composition of 1/nth of a unit-cell may be represented as R2+1.0_1.6T4+0.2-0.4R3+3.7-4.3O2-7.6-8.0(OH)-0-0.4,, where R2+ = Zn, Fe, Mg, and R2+ = Fe, Al. The polytypes so far observed are 4H, 5H, 6H, 15H, 15R, and 18R. Minerals structurally related to högbomite are nigerite (3H) and taaffeite (4H). A new occurrence of högbomite, polytype 5H, with composition Ti1·7Fe1·6Mg6·3Al18·8Si0·2O40, is described from a spinel-free paragenesis in a magnesian skarn at Mautia Hill, Tanganyika. Another new occurrence in an aluminous xenolith in the Cashel gabbro in Co. Galway, Ireland, is recorded. X-ray powder data are given for two of the polytypes.

2006 ◽  
Vol 21 (3) ◽  
pp. 210-213 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohamed Chakir ◽  
Abdelaziz El Jazouli ◽  
Jean-Pierre Chaminade

A new Nasicon phosphates series [Na3+xCr2−xCox(PO4)3(0⩽x⩽1)] was synthesized by a coprecipitation method and structurally characterized by powder X-ray diffraction. The selected compound Na3.5Cr1.5Co0.5(PO4)3 (x=0.5) crystallizes in the R3c space group with the following hexagonal unit-cell dimensions: ah=8.7285(3) Å, ch=21.580(2) Å, V=1423.8(1) Å3, and Z=6. This three-dimensional framework is built of PO4 tetrahedra and Cr∕CoO6 octahedra sharing corners. Na atoms occupy totally M(1) sites and partially M(2) sites.


2019 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
pp. 10-22 ◽  
Author(s):  
A.V. Kasatkin ◽  
R. Škoda, ◽  
F. Nestola ◽  
A.M. Kuznetsov ◽  
E.V. Belogub ◽  
...  

A mineral assemblage including REE fuorcarbonates (röntgenite-(Ce) Ca2Ce3(CO3)5F3, parisite-(Ce) CaCe2(CO3)3F2, synchisite-(Ce) CaCe(CO3)2F and bastnäsite-(Ce) Ce(CO3)F) was discovered at the dumps of the Vein № 35 open pit, Mt. Dolgaya, Vishnevye Mountains, Southern Urals. These intimately intergrown minerals compose aggregates up to 1 mm in allanite-(Ce)/ferriallanite-(Ce) and chamosite and are associated with microcline, molybdenite, monazite-(Ce), pyrite, thorite, fuorite and fuorannite. The fnd of röntgenite-(Ce) is frst in Urals. Its empirical formula is: (Ca1.98Th0.03)Σ2.01 (Ce1.45La1.02Nd0.32Pr0.11Sm0.03Y0.02Gd0.02)Σ2.97(CO3)5[F2.48(OH)0.52)Σ3.00. The hexagonal unit cell dimensions of the mineral calculated from X-ray powder data are: a = 7.049(1) Å, c = 69.283(30) Å, V = 2981(1) ų. The strongest bands in the Raman spectrum of the mineral are 164, 250, 349, 606, 731, 867, 1091, 1451 and 1737 cm–1.


1987 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 99-101
Author(s):  
G. Shoham ◽  
N. Cohen ◽  
S. Schneider ◽  
I. Mayer

AbstractX-ray powder diffraction analysis of the complex of Benzo-15-Crown-5 (B-15-Crown-5) with NaClO4 displays a monoclinic crystal system with refined unit cell parameters of a = 8.829(3)Å, b = 8.327(3)Å, c = 24.21(2)Å, ß = 99.18(1)Å, V = 1757.1(1)Å3, Z = 4, and Dx = 1.48 g/cm3. The space group, P21/c, and the unit cell dimensions, determined by a single crystal diffraction analysis, agree well with those of the powder analysis. X-ray powder diffraction analysis of the complex of B-15-Crown-5 with KI displays a tetragonal crystal system with refined unit cell dimensions of a = b = 17.869(3)Å, c = 9.761(3)Å, V = 3116.7(1)Å3, Z = 4, and Dx = 1.50 g/cm3. The space group, P4/n, and the unit cell dimensions, determined by a single crystal diffraction analysis, agree well with those of die powder diffraction analysis. The powder and single crystal analyses of the two complexes indicate that in the solid phase, B-15-Crown-5 forms a 1:1 complex with Na+ and a 2:1 complex with K+. The variation in the complexation mode of B-15-Crown-5 with different cations, partially explains the lack of selectivity of this crown ether towards Na+, while from considerations of the cavity size alone this crown ether was expected to be considerably selective towards this cation.


2001 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. 231-235
Author(s):  
Yu PuLan ◽  
Ding Shuang ◽  
Qiao Yuan Yuan ◽  
Yao XinKan ◽  
Zhang HaiYue ◽  
...  

X-ray powder diffraction data are reported for a series of multipyrazole compounds in this paper. This work shows that the unit cell dimensions determined by single crystal agree well with those of powder diffraction analysis.


1989 ◽  
Vol 42 (11) ◽  
pp. 2051 ◽  
Author(s):  
GD Fallon ◽  
L Spiccia

The crystal structure of [Rh(OH2)6](ClO4)3.3H2O has been determined by single-crystal X-ray diffraction and found to be isomorphous with that of M(ClO4)2.6H2O (M= Fe, Zn, Mn, Co, Ni) and LiClO4.3H2O. Crystal: are hexagonal, space group P63mc with unit cell dimensions a 7.817(2) and c 5.208(1) �. The lattice consists of a uniform arrangement of H2O and ClO4- groups with the RhIII centre occupying 1/3 of the octahedral sites formed by the H2O groups. The RhIII is not situated at the centre of the octahedron. However, the two Rh-O distances [2.128(6) and 2.136(6) �] may be considered identical, i.e. within the errors.


1991 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 48-49 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. J. Rawn ◽  
R. S. Roth ◽  
H. F. McMurdie

AbstractThe compound AlNbO4 has been studied by single crystal X-ray precession photographs and X-ray powder diffraction. Unit cell dimensions were calculated using a least squares analysis that refined to a Δ2θ° of no more than 0.03°. A monoclinic cell was found with space group C2/m, a = 12.1558(5)Å, b = 3.7345(2)Å, c = 6.4886(3)Å, and β = 107.613(4)°.


Author(s):  
L. W. Labaw

Crystals of a human γGl immunoglobulin have the external morphology of diamond shaped prisms. X-ray studies have shown them to be monoclinic, space group C2, with 2 molecules per unit cell. The unit cell dimensions are a = 194.1, b = 91.7, c = 51.6Å, 8 = 102°. The relatively large molecular weight of 151,000 and these unit cell dimensions made this a promising crystal to study in the EM.Crystals similar to those used in the x-ray studies were fixed at 5°C for three weeks in a solution of mother liquor containing 5 x 10-5M sodium phosphate, pH 7.0, and 0.03% glutaraldehyde. They were postfixed with 1% osmium tetroxide for 15 min. and embedded in Maraglas the usual way. Sections were cut perpendicular to the three crystallographic axes. Such a section cut with its plane perpendicular to the z direction is shown in Fig. 1.This projection of the crystal in the z direction shows periodicities in at least four different directions but these are only seen clearly by sighting obliquely along the micrograph.


1996 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 301-304
Author(s):  
Héctor Novoa de Armas ◽  
Rolando González Hernández ◽  
José Antonio Henao Martínez ◽  
Ramón Poméz Hernández

p-nitrophenol, C6H5NO3, and disophenol, C6H3I2NO3, have been investigated by means of X-ray powder diffraction. The unit cell dimensions were determined from diffractometer methods, using monochromatic CuKα1 radiation, and evaluated by indexing programs. The monoclinic cell found for p-nitrophenol was a=6.159(2) Å, b=8.890(2) Å, c=11.770(2) Å, β=103.04(2)°, Z=4, space group P21 or P2l/m, Dx=1.469 Mg/m3. The monoclinic cell found for disophenol has the dimensions a=8.886(1) Å, b=14.088(2) Å, c=8.521(1) Å, β=91.11(1)°, Z=4, space group P2, P2, Pm or P2/m, Dx=2.438 Mg/m3.


1999 ◽  
Vol 55 (2) ◽  
pp. 539-541
Author(s):  
Palangpon Kongsaeree ◽  
Jun Liang ◽  
Roy A. Jensen ◽  
Jon Clardy

The title protein has been crystallized in a new crystal form. The crystals belong to the cubic space group P4132 (or P4332) with unit-cell dimensions a = b = c = 126.1 Å at 100 K and typically diffract beyond 1.6 Å at the Cornell High Energy Synchotron Source (CHESS) A1 beamline.


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