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The crystal structures of cesanite and its synthetic analogue—A comparison
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A. Piotrowski
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R.X. Fischer
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March 28, 2015
Abstract
Single crystals of a synthetic apatite-like phase with composition Na6.9Ca3.1(SO4)6(OH)1.1 were grown under hydrothermal conditions. This compound crystallizes in the hexagonal space group P6̅ (a = 9.4434(13) Å, c = 6.8855(14) Å, Z = 1). The structure was solved by direct methods, and subsequently refined using 655 independent reflections (R1 = 0.0542). The chemical composition and the unit cell parameters indicated a close structural relationship with the mineral cesanite. A reinvestigation of the mineral showed that the natural and the synthetic phases are isostructural. Small differences result from the incorporation of both H2O and (OH)- into the structure of cesanite. Observed systematic absences revealed that the space group P63/m allocated to cesanite in earlier studies is incorrect. The crystal structure of a cesanite with composition Na7.0Ca3.0(SO4)6(OH)1.0(H2O)0.8 was successfully refined in space group P6̅ (a = 9.4630(8) Å, c = 6.9088(5) Å, Z = 1, R1 = 0.0468 for 720 independent reflections [I > 2σ(I)]). The symmetry reduction can be attributed to ordering of the Na and Ca atoms among four symmetrically independent cation sites.
Received: 2001-5-14
Accepted: 2001-12-13
Published Online: 2015-3-28
Published in Print: 2002-5-1
© 2015 by Walter de Gruyter Berlin/Boston
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