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    Calcite Vs Aragonite

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    X-ray diffraction can distinguish between the two calcium carbonate polymorphs, aragonite and calcite, based on their distinct diffraction patterns. However, quantifying mixtures of the two minerals can be challenging due to the robust intensity of calcite's 104 peak. Two alternative approaches are discussed: 1) comparing the integrated areas of calcite 104 and aragonite 221 peaks, and 2) comparing the heights of calcite 113 and aragonite 221 peaks, which have similar intensities in a 50-50 mixture.

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    X-ray diffraction can distinguish between the two calcium carbonate polymorphs, aragonite and calcite, based on their distinct diffraction patterns. However, quantifying mixtures of the two minerals can be challenging due to the robust intensity of calcite's 104 peak. Two alternative approaches are discussed: 1) comparing the integrated areas of calcite 104 and aragonite 221 peaks, and 2) comparing the heights of calcite 113 and aragonite 221 peaks, which have similar intensities in a 50-50 mixture.

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    X-ray diffraction can distinguish between the two calcium carbonate polymorphs, aragonite and calcite, based on their distinct diffraction patterns. However, quantifying mixtures of the two minerals can be challenging due to the robust intensity of calcite's 104 peak. Two alternative approaches are discussed: 1) comparing the integrated areas of calcite 104 and aragonite 221 peaks, and 2) comparing the heights of calcite 113 and aragonite 221 peaks, which have similar intensities in a 50-50 mixture.

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    Calcite Vs Aragonite

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    X-ray diffraction can distinguish between the two calcium carbonate polymorphs, aragonite and calcite, based on their distinct diffraction patterns. However, quantifying mixtures of the two minerals can be challenging due to the robust intensity of calcite's 104 peak. Two alternative approaches are discussed: 1) comparing the integrated areas of calcite 104 and aragonite 221 peaks, and 2) comparing the heights of calcite 113 and aragonite 221 peaks, which have similar intensities in a 50-50 mixture.

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    Railsback's Some Fundamentals of Mineralogy and Geochemistry

    X-ray diffraction (XRD) of aragonite and calcite


    X-ray diffraction provides an easy way Dickinson and McGrath (2001, The Analyst
    to distinguish between the two polymorphs 126, 1118–1121) used the ratio of integrated
    of CaCO3, aragonite and calcite. The two peak areas (not heights) of the calcite 104
    minerals have their highest-intensity peaks and aragonite 221 peaks to develop a quanti-
    at different positions, and the general look tative relationship for ratio of aragonite to
    of the two patterns is different. Aragonite calcite. That approach yields good quanti-
    has its greatest peak (111) at relatively small tative results, if with the somewhat unsettling
    °2Θ and has several lesser peaks, whereas proviso that a 50-50 mixture of the two ploy-
    calcite has a booming 104 peak a bit to the morphs has a 104/221 intensity ratio much
    right of the aragonite large peak, and few greater than 1, because of the exceptional
    and comparatively small other peaks. intensity of the calcite 104 peak.
    That difference in patterns, if con- Another approach that yields a more
    venient for quick identification of a pure intuitively acceptable result is to compare the
    sample, makes analysis of mixtures a bit calcite 113 and aragonite 221 peaks. In this
    more challenging. The calcite 104 peak is case, an 50-50 equal mixture of calcite and
    so robust that it is typically larger than the aragonite generates peaks of about the same
    aragonite 111 peak, even in a mixture that height, facilitating a quick-look approach. On
    is 75% aragonite. The aragonite peak, in a pattern generated with CoKα radiation, these
    contrast, begins to disappear in the noise peaks are at about 46 and 54 °2Θ, and thus
    of a calcite XRD pattern if aragonite is less conveniently symmetrically positioned around 50°.
    than 25% of the sample. Thus comparison On a pattern generated with CuKα radiation,
    of the most intense peaks becomes a
    they're at about 40 and 46 °2Θ, not quite so con-
    tricky and potentially misleading enterprise.
    veniently symmetrically positioned around 43°,
    The usual solution to this problem is
    but not hard to find.
    to use the aragonite 221 peak as an indicator
    of the abundance of aragonite. For example,

    LBR A&CmixturesXRD01.odg 7/2012

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