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Re-examination of yushkinite: chemical composition, optical properties and interlayer charge transfer

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 July 2018

Y. Moëlo ,
O. Rouer ,
L. Cario  and
B. Cervelle
Y. Moëlo
Affiliation:
Laboratoire de Chimie des Solides, Institut des Matériaux Jean Rouxel, UMR 6502 CNRS-Université de Nantes, 2, rue de la Houssinière, BP 32 229, 44 322 Nantes cedex 03, France
O. Rouer
Affiliation:
CNRS-CRSCM, 1A, rue de la Férollerie, 45 071 Orléans cedex, France
L. Cario
Affiliation:
Laboratoire de Chimie des Solides, Institut des Matériaux Jean Rouxel, UMR 6502 CNRS-Université de Nantes, 2, rue de la Houssinière, BP 32 229, 44 322 Nantes cedex 03, France
B. Cervelle
Affiliation:
Institut Francilien des Géosciences, Université de Marne-La-Vallée, 5, Bd. Descartes, Champs-sur-Marne, 77 454 Marne-La-Vallée cedex 2, France
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Abstract

The hydroxy-sulphide yushkinite from the type deposit has been re-examined by electron probe microanalysis and reflectance measurement. The EPMA indicates minor Cu (up to 1.5 wt.%) and confirms an excess of V. Taking into account its composite structure (brucite-like hydroxide layer alternating with a berndtite-type sulphide layer) the proposed structural formula is, with the addition of minor intercalated Cu: [(Mg0.71Al0.36V0.03)Σ1.10(OH)2.18O0.02]Cu0.02 [VS2]. At the crystal scale, some crystal edges give a variable excess of Si and Al (in the 1/1 ratio), indicating a late topotactic intergrowth with a layered alumino-silicate (or a composite silicate-sulphide). New specular reflectance data are given in air and oil from 400 to 800 nm, with the polarization plane parallel or perpendicular to the elongation. The refractive index n and absorption coefficient k are given; no absorption band exists in the perpendicular position, with constant n close to 1.9, and k to 0.3. In a parallel position, a pseudo-transparency window is centred around 500–520 nm (∼2.4 eV). The main absorption band, centred around 730 nm (∼1.7 eV), corresponds probably to a transition t2g → eg related to intra-layer V-V bonding. Charge transfer from the brucite-type layer to the VS2 one, strictly controlled through H-bonding, induces a mean formal valency of V close to 3.6. Yushkinite is compared with other synthetic layered hydroxy-sulphides, as well as brucite-type intercalated compounds.

Keywords

yushkinitehydroxy-sulphidevanadiumelectron microprobe dataspecular reflectance datacharge transferhydrogen bonding
Type
Research Article
Information
Mineralogical Magazine , Volume 63 , Issue 6 , December 1999 , pp. 879 - 889
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Copyright © The Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland 1999

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