scholarly journals Krasnoshteinite, Al8[B2O4(OH)2](OH)16Cl4⋅7H2O, a New Microporous Mineral with a Novel Type of Borate Polyanion

Crystals ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 301 ◽  
Author(s):  
Igor V. Pekov ◽  
Natalia V. Zubkova ◽  
Ilya I. Chaikovskiy ◽  
Elena P. Chirkova ◽  
Dmitry I. Belakovskiy ◽  
...  

A new mineral, krasnoshteinite (Al8[B2O4(OH)2](OH)16Cl4⋅7H2O), was found in the Verkhnekamskoe potassium salt deposit, Perm Krai, Western Urals, Russia. It occurs as transparent colourless tabular to lamellar crystals embedded up to 0.06 x 0.25 x 0.3 mm in halite-carnallite rock and is associated with dritsite, dolomite, magnesite, quartz, baryte, kaolinite, potassic feldspar, congolite, members of the goyazite–woodhouseite series, fluorite, hematite, and anatase. Dmeas = 2.11 (1) and Dcalc = 2.115 g/cm3. Krasnoshteinite is optically biaxial (+), α = 1.563 (2), β = 1.565 (2), γ = 1.574 (2), and 2Vmeas = 50 (10)°. The chemical composition (wt.%; by combination of electron microprobe and ICP-MS; H2O calculated from structure data) is: B2O3 8.15, Al2O3 46.27, SiO2 0.06, Cl 15.48, H2Ocalc. 33.74, –O=Cl –3.50, totalling 100.20. The empirical formula calculated based on O + Cl = 33 apfu is (Al7.87Si0.01)Σ7.88[B2.03O4(OH)2][(OH)15.74(H2O)0.26]Σ16[(Cl3.79(OH)0.21]Σ4⋅7H2O. The mineral is monoclinic, P21, a = 8.73980 (19), b = 14.4129 (3), c = 11.3060 (3) Å, β = 106.665 (2)°, V = 1364.35 (5) Å3, and Z = 2. The crystal structure of krasnoshteinite (solved using single-crystal data, R1 = 0.0557) is unique. It is based upon corrugated layers of Al-centered octahedra connected via common vertices. BO3 triangles and BO2(OH)2 tetrahedra share a common vertex, forming insular [B2O4(OH)2]4− groups (this is a novel borate polyanion) which are connected with Al-centered octahedra via common vertices to form the aluminoborate pseudo-framework. The structure is microporous, zeolite-like, with a three-dimensional system of wide channels containing Cl- anions and weakly bonded H2O molecules. The mineral is named in honour of the Russian mining engineer and scientist Arkadiy Evgenievich Krasnoshtein (1937–2009). The differences in crystal chemistry and properties between high-temperature and low-temperature natural Al borates are discussed.

1996 ◽  
Vol 74 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 4-9
Author(s):  
M. R. M. Witwit

The energy levels of a three-dimensional system are calculated for the rational potentials,[Formula: see text]using the inner-product technique over a wide range of values of the perturbation parameters (λ, g) and for various eigenstates. The numerical results for some special cases agree with those of previous workers where available.


1976 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 197-222
Author(s):  
R. J. Hartman

This paper uses the general solution of the linearized initial-value problem for an unbounded, exponentially-stratified, perfectly-conducting Couette flow in the presence of a uniform magnetic field to study the development of localized wave-type perturbations to the basic flow. The two-dimensional problem is shown to be stable for all hydrodynamic Richardson numbers JH, positive and negative, and wave packets in this flow are shown to approach, asymptotically, a level in the fluid (the ‘isolation level’) which is a smooth, continuous, function of JH that is well defined for JH < 0 as well as JH > 0. This system exhibits a rich complement of wave phenomena and a variety of mechanisms for the transport of mean flow kinetic and potential energy, via linear wave processes, between widely-separated regions of fluid; this in addition to the usual mechanisms for the absorption of the initial wave energy itself. The appropriate three-dimensional system is discussed, and the role of nonlinearities on the development of localized disturbances is considered.


Author(s):  
Malena I. Español ◽  
Dmitry Golovaty ◽  
J. Patrick Wilber

In this paper, we derive a continuum variational model for a two-dimensional deformable lattice of atoms interacting with a two-dimensional rigid lattice. The starting point is a discrete atomistic model for the two lattices which are assumed to have slightly different lattice parameters and, possibly, a small relative rotation. This is a prototypical example of a three-dimensional system consisting of a graphene sheet suspended over a substrate. We use a discrete-to-continuum procedure to obtain the continuum model which recovers both qualitatively and quantitatively the behaviour observed in the corresponding discrete model. The continuum model predicts that the deformable lattice develops a network of domain walls characterized by large shearing, stretching and bending deformation that accommodates the misalignment and/or mismatch between the deformable and rigid lattices. Two integer-valued parameters, which can be identified with the components of a Burgers vector, describe the mismatch between the lattices and determine the geometry and the details of the deformation associated with the domain walls.


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