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Thermal and combined high-temperature and high-pressure behavior of a natural intermediate scapolite

  • Paolo Lotti ORCID logo , G. Diego Gatta ORCID logo , Lara Gigli , Hannes Krüger , Volker Kahlenberg , Martin Meven , Davide Comboni , Sula Milani , Marco Merlini and Hanns-Peter Liermann
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Abstract

A natural intermediate member of the scapolite solid solution {Me47; chemical formula: (Na1.86Ca1.86K0.23Fe0.01)(Al4.36Si7.64)O24[Cl0.48(CO3)0.48(SO4)0.01]}, with the unusual I4/m space group, has been studied at various temperatures and combined high-T and high-P by means of in situ single-crystal and powder X-ray diffraction, using both conventional and synchrotron X-ray sources. In addition, single-crystal neutron diffraction data were collected at ambient-T and 685 °C. A fit of the experimental V-T data with a thermal equation of state yielded a thermal expansion coeficient at ambient conditions: αV25°C = 1/V0·(∂V/∂T)P,25°C = 1.74(3)·10–5 K–1. A comparative analysis of the elastic behavior of scapolite based on this study and previous high-T XRD data suggests that a thorough re-investigation of the diferent members of the marialite-meionite solid solution is needed to fully understand the role of crystal chemistry on the thermal behavior of these complex nonbinary solid solutions. The experimental data obtained within the full temperature range of analysis at ambient pressure confirm that the investigated sample always preserves the I4/m space group, and possible implications on the metastability of I4/m intermediate scapolite are discussed. Neutron difraction data show that no significant Si and Al rearrangement among the T sites occurs between 25 and 685 °C. The combined high-T and high-P data show that at 650 °C and between 10.30(5) and 10.71(5) GPa a phase transition toward a triclinic polymorph occurs, with a positive Clapeyron slope (i.e., dP/dT > 0). A comprehensive description of the atomic-scale structure deformation mechanisms induced by temperature and/or pressure, including those leading to structural instability, is provided based on single-crystal structure refinements.


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Acknowledgments and Funding

An anonymous reviewer is thanked for the competent and useful comments that improved the manuscript. We are grateful to Renato Pagano for providing the scapolite sample from his private mineralogical collection. We acknowledge DESY (Hamburg, Germany), a member of the Helmholtz Association HGF, for the provision of experimental facilities. Parts of this research were carried out at PETRA-III and beamtime was allocated for proposal I-20170565 EC. The research has been supported by the project CALIPSOplus under the Grant Agreement 730872 from the EU Framework Programme for Research and Innovation HORIZON 2020. ELETTRA Sincrotrone Trieste is acknowledged for the provision of beamtime and synchrotron facilities at the MCX beamline. Part of this work is based upon experiments performed at the HEiDi instrument operated jointly by RWTH Aachen University and Forschungszentrum Jülich within the JARA-FIT collaboration at the Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Zentrum (MLZ), Garching, Germany.

The authors acknowledge the support by the Italian Ministry of Education (MIUR) through the project “PRIN2017—Mineral reactivity, a key to understand large-scale processes” (2017L83S77). P.L. and G.D.G. acknowledge the University of Milan for financial support through the project “Piano di Sostegno alla Ricerca 2021”.

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Received: 2023-02-06
Accepted: 2023-06-08
Published Online: 2024-01-30
Published in Print: 2024-02-26

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