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Phase transitions during compression of thaumasite, Ca3Si(OH)6(CO3)(SO4)·12H2O: A high-pressure synchrotron powder X-ray diffraction study

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 July 2018

M. Ardit ,
G. Cruciani ,
M. Dondi ,
G. L. Garbarino  and
F. Nestola
M. Ardit*
Affiliation:
Department of Physics and Earth Sciences, University of Ferrara, via Saragat 1, I-44122 Ferrara, Italy
G. Cruciani
Affiliation:
Department of Physics and Earth Sciences, University of Ferrara, via Saragat 1, I-44122 Ferrara, Italy
M. Dondi
Affiliation:
Institute of Science and Technology for Ceramics (ISTEC - CNR), via Granarolo 64, I-48018 Faenza, Italy
G. L. Garbarino
Affiliation:
European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF), BP 220, 6 rue Jules Horowitz, F-38043 Grenoble Cedex, France
F. Nestola
Affiliation:
Department of Geosciences, University of Padova, via Gradenigo 6, I-35131 Padova, Italy
*
* E-mail: rdtmtt@unife.it
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Abstract

The high-pressure behaviour of the thaumasite structure was investigated using synchrotron powder X-ray diffraction, up to 19.5 GPa. Based on Rietveld refinements, thaumasite retained the roompressure P63 space group throughout the whole investigated pressure range while the pressure dependence of the refined unit-cell parameters can be cast into three different compression regimes, each corresponding to a different thaumasite phase (th-I, th-II and th-III) related by isosymmetric phase transitions. In particular, the phase transition in the 7.40–15.02 GPa P-range (i.e. from th-II to th-III) is associated with an inversion of the axial bulk moduli which, by analogy with ettringite, can be rationalized as due to a change in the relative strengths of the iono-covalent bonds along the [Ca3Si(OH)6(H2O)12]4+ columns parallel to the c axis vs. the O–H bonds linking the columns within the ab plane. The linear inverse relationship between the low- and high-temperature data from the literature with those collected under high-pressure conditions reveals that the same bonding regime governs the anisotropic expansion and contraction of thaumasite up to ~1.4 GPa and 400 K (HP-HT stability limits of th-I phase).

Keywords

thaumasiteoctahedrally coordinated silicon (Si–OH)high pressurephase transitionsynchrotron powder X-ray diffractionRietveld refinement
Type
Research Article
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Mineralogical Magazine , Volume 78 , Issue 5 , October 2014 , pp. 1193 - 1208
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Copyright © The Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland 2014

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