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Synthesis of thallium-leucite (TlAlSi2O6) pseudomorph after analcime

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 July 2018

A. Kyono ,
M. Kimata ,
M. Shimizu ,
S. Saito ,
N. Nishida  and
T. Hatta
A. Kyono
Affiliation:
Institute of Geoscience, University of Tsukuba, 1-1-1 Tennodai, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8571, Japan
M. Kimata
Affiliation:
Institute of Geoscience, University of Tsukuba, 1-1-1 Tennodai, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8571, Japan
M. Shimizu
Affiliation:
Institute of Geoscience, University of Tsukuba, 1-1-1 Tennodai, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8571, Japan
S. Saito
Affiliation:
Institute of Materials Science, University of Tsukuba, 1-1-1 Tennodai, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8573, Japan
N. Nishida
Affiliation:
Chemical Analysis Center, University of Tsukuba, 1-1-1 Tennodai, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8577, Japan
T. Hatta
Affiliation:
Japan International Research Center for Agricultural Sciences, Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, 1–2 Ohwashi, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8686, Japan
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Abstract

Thallium leucite, TlAlSi2O6, has been synthesized at 450°C for 7 days, under ambient conditions, by the transformation of dehydrated analcime NaAlSi2O6 in the presence of excess TlCl. This substitution of Tl for Na leads to confirmation of a thallium-leucite pseudomorph after analcime. Their optical properties, X-ray powder diffraction patterns, electron microprobe analysis, infrared spectra, and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy have characterized the synthetic Tl-leucites. The IR spectra show that the mid-IR modes T-O stretching and T-O-T bending vibrations for TlAlSi2O6 are more resemblant of those for analcime than for leucite, KAlSi2O6. This resemblance implies that Tl cation enters the W-site rather than the S-site in the analcime structure: Na (S) + H2O (W) ⇋ □ + K (leucite) ⇋ □ + Tl (Tl- leucite), where □ represents an S-site vacancy. The mechanism of this substitution is supported by the crystal chemical constraints: inasmuch as the S-site is smaller than the W-site, Tl+ cations being larger than Na+ plainly prefer the latter site to the former. One inference from the binding energy for Tl+ by XPS is that Tl+ occupies the extra-framework site in synthetic leucite pseudomorph, rather than the smaller tetrahedral site. The difference in Al/Si disordering between analcime and leucite and the nonstoichiometry due to the solid solution of the □Si3O6 component into the leucite structure may provide a fundamental insight into understanding why TlAlSi2O6 deviates from the trend defined by K-, Rb- and CsAlSi2O6 leucite series on the a-c parameter diagram, inasmuch as these three cations in the leucite structure occupy the W-sites. Finally, synthesis of TlAlSi2O6 leucite has an implication for the existence of other polymorphs due to different degrees of Al/Si disordering, except for high- and low-temperature leucites already known: natural leucites crystallized directly through igneous processes are different from those formed by substitution of K for Na in analcimes.

Keywords

thalliumleucitepseudomorphanalcimesubstitution
Type
Research Article
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Mineralogical Magazine , Volume 63 , Issue 1 , February 1999 , pp. 75 - 83
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Copyright © The Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland 1999

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