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Compressibility and pressure-induced structural evolution of kokchetavite, hexagonal polymorph of KAlSi3O8, by single-crystal X-ray diffraction

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Compressibility and pressure-induced structural evolution of kokchetavite, the hexagonal polymorph of KAlSi3O8, has been studied up to 11.8 GPa using synchrotron single-crystal X-ray diffraction. Two phase transitions were observed at pressures of ~0.3 and 10.4 GPa. Kokchetavite-I (as-synthesized, P6/mcc) transforms into kokchetavite-II with the P6c2 space group. Kokchetavite-II → kokchetavite-III phase transition at ~10.4 GPa is accompanied by a change of symmetry to probably orthorhombic. After pressure release, kokchetavite reverts to the initial single-crystal state with P6/mcc space group. A second-order Birch-Murnaghan equation of state was calculated for phase kokchetavite-II with coefficients V0 = 1486(3) Å3, K0 = 59(2) GPa.

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We want to thank Konstantin V. Glazyrin for invaluable help in conducting the experiment and Yurii V. Seryotkin for useful discussion. 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, P02.2 Extreme Conditions beamline, proposal #1-20211603. This study is supported by the Russian Scientific Foundation (project 18-17-00186). A major part of the analytical procedures was carried out at the Analytical Center for multi-elemental and isotope research, Sobolev Institute of Geology and Mineralogy, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IGM SB RAS), Novosibirsk, Russia. A.G. Sokol and K.A. Kokh work on K-cymrite synthesis was supported by the Russian Scientific Foundation (project 22-17-00005) and by state assignment of IGM SB RAS

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Received: 2023-07-11
Accepted: 2023-10-04
Published Online: 2024-07-09
Published in Print: 2024-07-26

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