The position of vanadium in the crystal structure of zoisite, a variety tanzanite
- Autor(en)
- Peter Bačík, Manfred Wildner, Radek Skoda, Peter Cibula, Tomáš Vaculovič
- Abstrakt
Tanzanite is the most valued gemmological variety of zoisite in which V is the dominant trace element and chromophore. However, the exact position and state of V in the zoisite structure are quite enigmatic and subject to many hypotheses based mainly on spectroscopic evidence but lacking any definite structural proof. Therefore, we combined a structure refinement with optical absorption spectroscopy and used two separate theoretical approaches to shed some light on this enigma.
- Organisation(en)
- Institut für Mineralogie und Kristallographie
- Externe Organisation(en)
- Univerzita Komenského v Bratislave, Masaryk University
- Publikationsdatum
- 2023
- ÖFOS 2012
- 105116 Mineralogie, 105113 Kristallographie
- Link zum Portal
- https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/de/publications/377c98f3-6db8-40fe-8a5f-0a9ffd9d7e86