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Aragonite R150021

Name: Aragonite
RRUFF ID: R150021
Ideal Chemistry: Ca(CO₃)
Locality: Gallo river, Molina de Aragón, Guadalajara, Castile-La Mancha, Spain
Source: Canan D'Avela
Owner: RRUFF
Description: Twinned crystals shaped like hexagonal prisms
Status: The identification of this mineral has been confirmed by X-ray diffraction and chemical analysis

Mineral Group: [ Aragonite (18) ]

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CHEMISTRY

RRUFF ID:	R150021.2
Sample Description:	Microprobe Fragment
Measured Chemistry:	(Ca_0.987Sr_0.0096)CO₃
Microprobe Data File:	[ Download Excel File ]

RAMAN SPECTRUM

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Sample Description:

Unoriented Raman on the primary sample

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BROAD SCAN WITH SPECTRAL ARTIFACTS

RRUFF ID:

R150021

Wavelength:

Sample Description:

Unoriented Raman on the primary sample

Instrument settings:

Thermo Almega XR 532nm @ 10% of 150mW

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POWDER DIFFRACTION

RRUFF ID:

R150021.1

Sample Description:

Powder

Cell Refinement Output:

a: 4.9612(1)Å b: 7.9708(3)Å c: 5.7431(1)Å
alpha: 90° beta: 90° gamma: 90° Volume: 227.111(8)Å³ Crystal System: orthorhombic

File Type Information

Output file from the Bruker D8 Advance instrument. Includes device headers and XY data.

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REFERENCES for Aragonite
American Mineralogist Crystal Structure Database Record: [view record]
Anthony J W, Bideaux R A, Bladh K W, and Nichols M C (1990) Handbook of Mineralogy, Mineral Data Publishing, Tucson Arizona, USA, by permission of the Mineralogical Society of America. [view file]
Werner A G (1788) Geschichte, Karakteristik, und kurze chemische Untersuchung des Apatits. IV. Kurze Nachricht von den sogenannten arragonischen Apatiten, Bergmannisches Journal, 1, 76-96 [view file]
Hauy C (1791) Sur l'arragonite de Werner, Bulletin des Science, par la Société Philomathique, 2, 67-68 [view file]
Estner F J A (1797) 286. Gattung Arragonit., Versuch einer Mineralogie für Anfänger und Liebhaber, 2, 1039-1045 [view file]
Karsten D L G (1800) Tabellarische uebersicht der mineralogisch - einfachen fossilien [as kalkstein], in Mineralogische Tabellen Heinrich August Rottmann Berlin 34-34 [view file]
Zachariasen W H (1928) Untersuchungen über die Kristallstruktur von Sesquioxyden und Verbindungen ABO₃, Skrifter Utgitt av Det Norske Videnskaps-Akademi i Oslo, 1, 1-165 [view file]
Northwood D O, Lewis D (1970) Strain induced calcite-aragonite transformation in calcium carbonate, The Canadian Mineralogist, 10, 216-224 [view file]
De Villiers J P R (1971) Crystal structures of aragonite, strontianite, and witherite, American Mineralogist, 56, 758-772 [view file]
Negro A D, Ungaretti L (1971) Refinement of the crystal structure of aragonite, American Mineralogist, 56, 768-772 [view file]
Frech R, Wang E C, Bates J B (1980) The IR and Raman-spectra of CaCO₃ (aragonite), Spectrochimica Acta Part A-Molecular and Biomolecular Spectroscopy, 36, 915-919 [link]
Cloots R (1991) Raman spectrum of carbonates M^IICO₃ in the 1100-1000 cm^-1 region: observation of the v₁ mode of the isotopic (C¹⁶O₂¹⁸O)^2- ion, Spectrochimica Acta Part A-Molecular and Biomolecular Spectroscopy, 47, 1745-1750
Sato T, Suda J (1996) Temperature dependence of the linewidth of the first-order Raman spectra for aragonite crystal, Journal of the Physical Society of Japan, 65, 482-488 [link]
Alía J M, Díaz de Mera Y D, Edwards H G M, Martín P G, Andrés S L (1997) FT-Raman and infrared spectroscopic study of aragonite-strontianite (Ca_xSr_1-xCO₃) solid solution, Spectrochimica Acta Part A-Molecular and Biomolecular Spectroscopy, 53, 2347-2362 [link]
Gauldie R W, Sharma S K, Volk E (1997) Micro-Raman spectral study of vaterite and aragonite otoliths of the coho salmon, Oncorhynchus kisutch, Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology A-Physiology, 118, 753-757 [link]
Kontoyannis C G, Orkoula M G, Koutsoukos P G (1997) Quantitative analysis of sulfated calcium carbonates using Raman spectroscopy and X-ray powder diffraction, Analyst, 122, 33-38
Gabrielli C, Jaouhari R, Joiret S, Maurin G (2000) In situ Raman spectroscopy applied to electrochemical scaling. Determination of the structure of vaterite, Journal of Raman Spectroscopy, 31, 497-501 [link]
Kontoyannis C G, Nikos V V (2000) Calcium carbonate phase analysis using XRD and FT-Raman, Analyst, 125, 251-255
Suito K, Namba J, Horikawa T, Taniguchi Y, Sakurai N, Kobayashi M, Onodera A, Shimomura O, Kikegawa T (2001) Phase relations of CaCO₃ at high pressure and high temperature, American Mineralogist, 86, 997-1002 [view file]
Nave D, Rosenwaks S, Vago R, Bar I (2004) Pulsed laser deposition of marine origin material: Preparation and characterization of CaCO₃ particles and CaO nanocrystals, Journal of Applied Physics, 95, 8309-8313 [link]
Ono S, Kikegawa T, Ohishi Y, Tsuchiya J (2005) Post-aragonite phase transformation in CaCO₃ at 40 GPa, American Mineralogist, 90, 667-671 [view file]
Antao S M, Hassan I (2009) The orthorhombic structure of CaCO₃, SrCO₃, PbCO₃ and BaCO₃: Linear structural trends, The Canadian Mineralogist, 47, 1245-1255 [view file]
Buzgar N, Apopei A I (2009) The Raman study of certain carbonates, Analele Stiintifice Ale Universitatii, Al. I. Cuza Iasi Geologie, 55, 97-112 [view file]
Antao S M, Hassan I (2010) Temperature dependence of the structural parameters in the transformation of aragonite to calcite, as determined from in situ synchrotron powder X-ray-diffraction data, The Canadian Mineralogist, 48, 1225-1236 [view file]
Ye Y, Smyth J R, Boni P (2012) Crystal structure and thermal expansion of aragonite-group carbonates by single-crystal X-ray diffraction, American Mineralogist, 97, 707-712 [view file]
Li Y, Zou Y, Chen T, Wang X, Qi X, Chen H, Du J, Li B (2015) P-V-T equation of state and high-pressure behavior of CaCO₃ aragonite, American Mineralogist, 100, 2323-2329
Schaebitz M, Wirth R, Janssen C, Dresen G (2015) First evidence of CaCO₃-III and CaCO₃-IIIb high-pressure polymorphs of calcite: authigenically formed in near surface sediments, American Mineralogist, 100, 1230-1235
D'Avela C, Bao J, Croxen F W, Downs R T, Fickett S, Rodrigues H, Rothstein D, Thompson J J (2016) Preliminary method to determine CO₂ sequestration in cementitious units, The Masonry Society, 34, 19-28 [view file]
Palaich S E M, Heffern R A, Hanfland M, Lausi A, Kavner A, Manning C E, Merlini M (2016) High-pressure compressibility and thermal expansion of aragonite, American Mineralogist, 101, 1651-1658
Nie S, Liu Y, Liu Q, Wang M, Wang H (2017) Phase transitions and thermal expansion of BaCO₃ and SrCO₃ up to 1413 K, European Journal of Mineralogy, 29, 433-443
Farsang S, Facq S, Redfern S A T (2018) Raman modes of carbonate minerals as pressure and temperature gauges up to 6 GPa and 500 °C, American Mineralogist, 103, 1988-1998
Fruhner C J, Bayarjargal L, Schrodt N, Luchitskaia R, Morgenroth W, Winkler B (2018) Pressure-induced phase transition from calcite to aragonite detected by fluorescence spectroscopy, European Journal of Mineralogy, 30, 711-720
Shatskiy A, Podborodnikov I V, Arefiev A V, Minin D A, Chanyshev A D, Litasov K D (2018) Revision of the CaCO₃-MgCO₃ phase diagram at 3 and 6 GPa, American Mineralogist, 103, 441-452
Lv M, Liu J, Greenberg E, Prakapenka V B, Dorfman S M (2020) Thermal equation of state of post-aragonite CaCO₃-Pmmn, American Mineralogist, 105, 1365-1374
Banaru D A, Banaru A M, Aksenov S M (2022) Structural complexity of polymorphs of calcium carbonate and its crystalline hydrates, Journal of Structural Chemistry, 63, 1291-1303 [view file]

REFERENCES for Aragonite

American Mineralogist Crystal Structure Database Record: [view record]

Anthony J W, Bideaux R A, Bladh K W, and Nichols M C (1990) Handbook of Mineralogy, Mineral Data Publishing, Tucson Arizona, USA, by permission of the Mineralogical Society of America. [view file]

Werner A G (1788) Geschichte, Karakteristik, und kurze chemische Untersuchung des Apatits. IV. Kurze Nachricht von den sogenannten arragonischen Apatiten, Bergmannisches Journal, 1, 76-96 [view file]

Hauy C (1791) Sur l'arragonite de Werner, Bulletin des Science, par la Société Philomathique, 2, 67-68 [view file]

Estner F J A (1797) 286. Gattung Arragonit., Versuch einer Mineralogie für Anfänger und Liebhaber, 2, 1039-1045 [view file]

Karsten D L G (1800) Tabellarische uebersicht der mineralogisch - einfachen fossilien [as kalkstein], in Mineralogische Tabellen Heinrich August Rottmann Berlin 34-34 [view file]

Zachariasen W H (1928) Untersuchungen über die Kristallstruktur von Sesquioxyden und Verbindungen ABO₃, Skrifter Utgitt av Det Norske Videnskaps-Akademi i Oslo, 1, 1-165 [view file]

Northwood D O, Lewis D (1970) Strain induced calcite-aragonite transformation in calcium carbonate, The Canadian Mineralogist, 10, 216-224 [view file]

De Villiers J P R (1971) Crystal structures of aragonite, strontianite, and witherite, American Mineralogist, 56, 758-772 [view file]

Negro A D, Ungaretti L (1971) Refinement of the crystal structure of aragonite, American Mineralogist, 56, 768-772 [view file]

Frech R, Wang E C, Bates J B (1980) The IR and Raman-spectra of CaCO₃ (aragonite), Spectrochimica Acta Part A-Molecular and Biomolecular Spectroscopy, 36, 915-919 [link]

Cloots R (1991) Raman spectrum of carbonates M^IICO₃ in the 1100-1000 cm^-1 region: observation of the v₁ mode of the isotopic (C¹⁶O₂¹⁸O)^2- ion, Spectrochimica Acta Part A-Molecular and Biomolecular Spectroscopy, 47, 1745-1750

Sato T, Suda J (1996) Temperature dependence of the linewidth of the first-order Raman spectra for aragonite crystal, Journal of the Physical Society of Japan, 65, 482-488 [link]

Alía J M, Díaz de Mera Y D, Edwards H G M, Martín P G, Andrés S L (1997) FT-Raman and infrared spectroscopic study of aragonite-strontianite (Ca_xSr_1-xCO₃) solid solution, Spectrochimica Acta Part A-Molecular and Biomolecular Spectroscopy, 53, 2347-2362 [link]

Gauldie R W, Sharma S K, Volk E (1997) Micro-Raman spectral study of vaterite and aragonite otoliths of the coho salmon, Oncorhynchus kisutch, Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology A-Physiology, 118, 753-757 [link]

Kontoyannis C G, Orkoula M G, Koutsoukos P G (1997) Quantitative analysis of sulfated calcium carbonates using Raman spectroscopy and X-ray powder diffraction, Analyst, 122, 33-38

Gabrielli C, Jaouhari R, Joiret S, Maurin G (2000) In situ Raman spectroscopy applied to electrochemical scaling. Determination of the structure of vaterite, Journal of Raman Spectroscopy, 31, 497-501 [link]

Kontoyannis C G, Nikos V V (2000) Calcium carbonate phase analysis using XRD and FT-Raman, Analyst, 125, 251-255

Suito K, Namba J, Horikawa T, Taniguchi Y, Sakurai N, Kobayashi M, Onodera A, Shimomura O, Kikegawa T (2001) Phase relations of CaCO₃ at high pressure and high temperature, American Mineralogist, 86, 997-1002 [view file]

Nave D, Rosenwaks S, Vago R, Bar I (2004) Pulsed laser deposition of marine origin material: Preparation and characterization of CaCO₃ particles and CaO nanocrystals, Journal of Applied Physics, 95, 8309-8313 [link]

Ono S, Kikegawa T, Ohishi Y, Tsuchiya J (2005) Post-aragonite phase transformation in CaCO₃ at 40 GPa, American Mineralogist, 90, 667-671 [view file]

Antao S M, Hassan I (2009) The orthorhombic structure of CaCO₃, SrCO₃, PbCO₃ and BaCO₃: Linear structural trends, The Canadian Mineralogist, 47, 1245-1255 [view file]

Buzgar N, Apopei A I (2009) The Raman study of certain carbonates, Analele Stiintifice Ale Universitatii, Al. I. Cuza Iasi Geologie, 55, 97-112 [view file]

Antao S M, Hassan I (2010) Temperature dependence of the structural parameters in the transformation of aragonite to calcite, as determined from in situ synchrotron powder X-ray-diffraction data, The Canadian Mineralogist, 48, 1225-1236 [view file]

Ye Y, Smyth J R, Boni P (2012) Crystal structure and thermal expansion of aragonite-group carbonates by single-crystal X-ray diffraction, American Mineralogist, 97, 707-712 [view file]

Li Y, Zou Y, Chen T, Wang X, Qi X, Chen H, Du J, Li B (2015) P-V-T equation of state and high-pressure behavior of CaCO₃ aragonite, American Mineralogist, 100, 2323-2329

Schaebitz M, Wirth R, Janssen C, Dresen G (2015) First evidence of CaCO₃-III and CaCO₃-IIIb high-pressure polymorphs of calcite: authigenically formed in near surface sediments, American Mineralogist, 100, 1230-1235

D'Avela C, Bao J, Croxen F W, Downs R T, Fickett S, Rodrigues H, Rothstein D, Thompson J J (2016) Preliminary method to determine CO₂ sequestration in cementitious units, The Masonry Society, 34, 19-28 [view file]

Palaich S E M, Heffern R A, Hanfland M, Lausi A, Kavner A, Manning C E, Merlini M (2016) High-pressure compressibility and thermal expansion of aragonite, American Mineralogist, 101, 1651-1658

Nie S, Liu Y, Liu Q, Wang M, Wang H (2017) Phase transitions and thermal expansion of BaCO₃ and SrCO₃ up to 1413 K, European Journal of Mineralogy, 29, 433-443

Farsang S, Facq S, Redfern S A T (2018) Raman modes of carbonate minerals as pressure and temperature gauges up to 6 GPa and 500 °C, American Mineralogist, 103, 1988-1998

Fruhner C J, Bayarjargal L, Schrodt N, Luchitskaia R, Morgenroth W, Winkler B (2018) Pressure-induced phase transition from calcite to aragonite detected by fluorescence spectroscopy, European Journal of Mineralogy, 30, 711-720

Shatskiy A, Podborodnikov I V, Arefiev A V, Minin D A, Chanyshev A D, Litasov K D (2018) Revision of the CaCO₃-MgCO₃ phase diagram at 3 and 6 GPa, American Mineralogist, 103, 441-452

Lv M, Liu J, Greenberg E, Prakapenka V B, Dorfman S M (2020) Thermal equation of state of post-aragonite CaCO₃-Pmmn, American Mineralogist, 105, 1365-1374

Banaru D A, Banaru A M, Aksenov S M (2022) Structural complexity of polymorphs of calcium carbonate and its crystalline hydrates, Journal of Structural Chemistry, 63, 1291-1303 [view file]