Journal
ACS EARTH AND SPACE CHEMISTRY
Volume 5, Issue 5, Pages 1130-1139Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acsearthspacechem.1c00032
Keywords
alstonite; BaCa(CO3)(2); crystal structure; carbonate; phase transition; high pressure; synchrotron X-ray diffraction; DFT calculations
Funding
- Spanish Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovacion y Universidades (MICINN)
- Agencia Estatal de Investigacion under project MALTA Consolider Ingenio 2010 network [MAT2015-71070REDC]
- Agencia Estatal de Investigacion (EU FEDER funds) [PGC2018-097520-A-I00]
- Generalitat Valenciana [PROMETEO/2018/123]
- Spanish MINECO [RyC- 2014-15643, RyC-2016-20301]
- panish Ministerio de Economia y Competitividad (MINECO) [FIS2017-83295-P]
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New research reveals that the crystal chemistry of the CaO-BaO-CO2 system is more complex than previously believed, with BaCa(CO3)(2) alstonite structure showing unique characteristics at ambient conditions and high pressures. Under pressure, alstonite undergoes structural changes, transitioning to a monoclinic phase at 9 GPa and experiencing a second phase transition at 24 GPa. These changes result in an increase in the coordination number of Ba atoms. The equation of state of alstonite was determined, and comparisons were made with other carbonates to investigate the relative stability of BaCa(CO3)(2) polymorphs.
( )New single-crystal X-ray diffraction experiments and density functional theory (DFT) calculations reveal that the crystal chemistry of the CaO-BaO-CO2 system is more complex than previously thought. We characterized the BaCa(CO3)(2) alstonite structure at ambient conditions, which differs from the recently reported crystal structure of this mineral in the stacking of the carbonate groups. This structural change entails the existence of different cation coordination environments. The structural behavior of alstonite at high pressures was studied using synchrotron powder X-ray diffraction data and ab initio calculations up to 19 and 50 GPa, respectively. According to the experiments, above 9 GPa, the alstonite structure distorts into a monoclinic C2 phase derived from the initial trigonal structure. This is consistent with the appearance of imaginary frequencies and geometry relaxation in DFT calculations. Moreover, calculations predict a second phase transition at 24 GPa, which would cause the increase in the coordination number of Ba atoms from 10 to 11 and 12. We determined the equation of state of alstonite (V-0 = 1608(2) angstrom(3), B-0 = 60(3) GPa, B-0' = 4.4(8) from experimental data) and analyzed the evolution of the polyhedral units under compression. The crystal chemistry of alstonite was compared to that of other carbonates and the relative stability of all known BaCa(CO3)(2) polymorphs was investigated.
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