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Compressibility, thermal expansion, and Raman spectroscopy of synthetic whitlockite Ca9Mg(PO3OH)(PO4)6 at high pressures and high temperatures

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Abstract

In situ X-ray diffraction and Raman spectroscopy of a synthetic whitlockite, Ca9Mg(PO3OH) (PO4)6, have been conducted at high pressures or high temperatures. The results show that whitlockite is stable up to ~15 GPa at ambient temperature and undergoes a thermally induced dehydrogenation to merrillite above 973 K at ambient pressure. The obtained pressure-volume data were fitted using a third-order Birch-Murnaghan equation of state, yielding an isothermal bulk modulus of K0 = 79(4) GPa with a pressure derivative of K0 = 4.3(6). When K0 was fixed at 4, the refined isothermal bulk modulus was 81(1) GPa. The volumetric thermal expansion coefficient (αV) is 4.05(8) × 10−5 K−1, and the axial thermal expansion coefficients (αa and αc) are 1.07(5) × 10−5 K−1 and 1.91(6) × 10−5 K−1. Both compressibility and thermal expansion show an axial anisotropy. The effects of pressure and temperature on the Raman spectra of whitlockite have been quantitatively analyzed. The isothermal and isobaric mode Grüneisen parameters and the intrinsic anharmonic mode parameters of whitlockite were derived. Some amounts of OH-bearing whitlockite may be preserved in meteorites if whitlockite undergoes a low-temperature process.

Funding statement: This work was financially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 42120104005), the International Partnership Program of Chinese Academy of Sciences (Grant No. 132852KYSB20200011), and Guizhou Provincial 2021 Science and Technology Subsidies (No. GZ2021SIG). The in-situ synchrotron X-ray diffraction measurements were carried out at the BL15U1 and BL14B1 beamlines of the Shanghai Synchrotron Radiation Facility (Proposal Nos. 2018-SSRF-PT-007075 and 2020-SSRF-PT-012550).

Acknowledgments

The authors thank Sergio Speziale for his editorial handling and helpful comments and suggestions and also appreciate Marina Martinez and Mario Tribaudino for their critical comments and suggestions.

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Received: 2023-06-01
Accepted: 2024-02-07
Published Online: 2024-11-04
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