Crystal chemistry of mimetite, Pb10(AsO4)6Cl1.48O0.26, and finnemanite, Pb10(AsO3)6Cl2

• Main Authors: Baikie, Tom, Ferraris, Cristiano, Pring, Allan, Klooster, Wim T., Madhavi, S., Pramana, Stevin S., Schmidt, G., White, Timothy John
• Other Authors: School of Materials Science & Engineering
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2014
• Subjects: DRNTU::Engineering::Materials
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/79513; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/18841
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

The crystal chemistries of synthetic mimetite, Pb10(As5+O4)6(Cl2-xOx/2), a neutral apatite, and finnemanite, Pb10(As3+O3)6Cl2, a reduced apatite, were characterized using a combination of X-ray powder diffraction, neutron diffraction, transmission electron microscopy and X-ray photoelectron spe...