The orthorhombic-hexagonal phase transformation in the system BaCO3-SrCO3 to pressures of 7000 bar

The orthorhombic-hexagonal phase transformation in the system BaCO₃-SrCO₃ has been investigated to 7000 bar by differential thermal analysis. The pressure dependence of the orthorhombic-hexagonal transformation temperature T _p may be represented by the polynomial T _p =933.4?443.3 · X _{BaCO 3}+323.7 · X _{BaCO 3}+P(8.59?2.48)·X _{BaCO 3} where X _{BaCO 3}=mol fraction of witherite, P the pressure in kbar and T the temperature in °C. Lattice parameters refined by powder X-ray diffraction measurements of the orthorhombic solid solution can be fitted to a linear relationship V _orthorh [ų]=259.30+X _{BaCO 3} with no evidence of any excess volume. The experimental transformation temperatures are modeled by assuming a symmetric regular solution and a diffusionless transformation.