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Crystal-chemistry and vibrational spectroscopy of ferrinatrite, Na3[Fe(SO4)3]·3H2O, and its high-temperature decomposition

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The crystal structure of ferrinatrite, Na3[Fe(SO4)3]·3H2O, was refined based on a new single-crystal X-ray diffraction experiment on a sample from the type locality Sierra Gorda, Chile. The data allowed H to be successfully located and the H-bonding system to be defined. Infrared and Raman spectra are presented and discussed for this compound on the basis of the crystal structure. The Oacceptor···H–Odonor bond distances determined from the structure refinement agree well with the geometric correlation obtained from spectroscopic data. The thermal stability and dehydration process of ferrinatrite was investigated by in situ high temperature (HT) synchrotron X-ray powder diffraction, Raman and Fourier transform infrared spectroscopies.

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Acknowledgements

We thank Diamond Light Source for access to MIRIAM beamline B22 (proposal number SM17483). We thank two reviewers, S. Mills and an anonymous reviewer for their constructive comments which allowed us to improve the clarity of the manuscript. The research leading to the results presented here has received funding from the European Community’s Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007–2013) under the grant agreement n◦ 226716. The micro-Raman laboratory at University of Bari “Aldo Moro”, was funded by Potenziamento Strutturale PONa3_00369 “Laboratorio per lo Sviluppo Integrato delle Scienze e delle TEcnologie dei Materiali Avanzati e per dispositivi innovativi (SISTEMA)”.

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  1. Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra e Geoambientali, Università di Bari “Aldo Moro”, via Orabona, 4, 70125, Bari, Italy

    Gennaro Ventruti & Emanuela Schingaro

  2. Dipartimento di Scienze, Università Roma Tre, Largo S. Leonardo Murialdo I, 00146, Roma, Italy

    Giancarlo Della Ventura, Marco Sbroscia & Armida Sodo

  3. INFN-LNF, Frascati, Roma, Italy

    Giancarlo Della Ventura

  4. Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra, Università di Pisa, via S. Maria 53, 56100, Pisa, Italy

    Maria Lacalamita

  5. Elettra - Sincrotrone Trieste S.C.p.A., ss 14, km 163.5, Basovizza, 34149, Trieste, Italy

    Jasper R. Plaisier

  6. Diamond Light Source Ltd, Oxford, UK

    Gianfelice Cinque

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Ventruti, G., Ventura, G.D., Lacalamita, M. et al. Crystal-chemistry and vibrational spectroscopy of ferrinatrite, Na3[Fe(SO4)3]·3H2O, and its high-temperature decomposition. Phys Chem Minerals 46, 119–131 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00269-018-0991-9

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