Structural thermal behavior of paragonite and its dehydroxylate: a high-temperature single-crystal study |
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Authors: | P Comodi P F Zanazzi |
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Institution: | (1) Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra, Università di Perugia, Piazza Università, 06100 Perugia, Italy e-mail: zanazzi@unipg.it Fax: +39 0755852603, IT |
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Abstract: | The lattice constants of paragonite-2M1, NaAl2(AlSi3)O10(OH)2, were determined to 800 °C by the single-crystal diffraction method. Mean thermal expansion coefficients, in the range 25–600 °C,
were: αa = 1.51(8) × 10−5, αb = 1.94(6) × 10−5, αc = 2.15(7) × 10−5 °C−1, and αV = 5.9(2) × 10−5 °C−1. At T higher than 600 °C, cell parameters showed a change in expansion rate due to a dehydroxylation process. The structural refinements
of natural paragonite, carried out at 25, 210, 450 and 600 °C, before dehydroxylation, showed that the larger thermal expansion
along the c parameter was mainly due to interlayer thickness dilatation. In the 25–600 °C range, Si,Al tetrahedra remained quite unchanged,
whereas the other polyhedra expanded linearly with expansion rate proportional to their volume. The polyhedron around the
interlayer cation Na became more regular with temperature. Tetrahedral rotation angle α changed from 16.2 to 12.9°. The structure
of the new phase, nominally NaAl2 (AlSi3)O11, obtained as a consequence of dehydroxylation, had a cell volume 4.2% larger than that of paragonite. It was refined at room
temperature and its expansion coefficients determined in the range 25–800 °C. The most significant structural difference from
paragonite was the presence of Al in fivefold coordination, according to a distorted trigonal bipyramid. Results confirm the
structural effects of the dehydration mechanism of micas and dioctahedral 2:1 layer silicates. By combining thermal expansion
and compressibility data, the following approximate equation of state in the PTV space was obtained for paragonite: V/V
0 = 1 + 5.9(2) × 10−5
T(°C) − 0.00153(4) P(kbar).
Received: 12 July 1999 / Revised, accepted: 7 December 1999 |
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Keywords: | Paragonite Mica 2M1 Thermal expansion Dehydroxylation |
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