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Evidence for the existence of a PbCO3-II phase from high pressure X-ray measurements

  • Robert Minch
  • , Lars Peters
  • , Lars Ehm
  • , Karsten Knorr
  • , Oleg I. Siidra
  • , Vitali Prakapenka
  • , Przemyslaw Dera
  • , Wulf Depmeier
  • Kiel University
  • RWTH Aachen University
  • Bruker Corporation
  • St. Petersburg State University
  • The University of Chicago

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Abstract

The high-pressure room temperature behavior of PbCO3 was investigated by angle-dispersive synchrotron powder diffraction up to 16.16(5) GPa. A phase transition to a high-pressure polymorph II of lead carbonate was observed at a pressure of approximately ρc = 8.7 GPa. Thereby, the symmetry is reduced from orthorhombic Pmcn to monoelinie P121/c1. The cell parameters at ρ = 8.90(5) GPa are a = 5.101(1) Å, b = 8.303(3) Å, c = 5.602(2) Å, β = 89.51(4)°, Z = 4. The transformation is supposed to be of 2nd order.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)146-152
Number of pages7
JournalZeitschrift fur Kristallographie
Volume225
Issue number4
DOIs
StatePublished - Apr 2010

Keywords

  • High pressure
  • Lead carbonate
  • Phase transition
  • X-ray diffraction

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