Vibrational entropy of disordering in omphacite

Author(s)
Artur Benisek, Edgar Dachs, Michael A. Carpenter, Bastian Joachim-Mrosko, Noreen M. Vielreicher, Manfred Wildner
Abstract

The cations of an ordered omphacite from the Tauern window were gradually disordered in piston cylinder experiments at temperatures between 850 and 1150 °C. The samples were examined by X-ray powder diffraction and then investigated using low-temperature calorimetry and IR spectroscopy. The low-temperature heat capacity data were used to obtain the vibrational entropies, and the line broadening of the IR spectra served as a tool to investigate the disordering enthalpy. These data were then used to calculate the configurational entropy as a function of temperature. The vibrational entropy does not change during the cation ordering phase transition from space group C2/c to P2/n at 865 °C but increases with a further temperature increase due to the reduction of short-range order.

Organisation(s)
Department of Mineralogy and Crystallography
External organisation(s)
Paris-Lodron Universität Salzburg, University of Cambridge, Leopold-Franzens-Universität Innsbruck
Journal
Physics and Chemistry of Minerals
Volume
50
ISSN
0342-1791
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00269-023-01260-7
Publication date
12-2023
Peer reviewed
Yes
Austrian Fields of Science 2012
105116 Mineralogy, 105113 Crystallography
Keywords
ASJC Scopus subject areas
General Materials Science, Geochemistry and Petrology
Portal url
https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/en/publications/58fa41df-3943-4ce5-a471-5164ca846eef