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Thermal expansion of cancrinite

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 July 2018

Ishmael Hassan
Ishmael Hassan*
Affiliation:
Department of Geology, Faculty of Science, University of Kuwait, P.O. Box 5969, Safat, 13060, Kuwait
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Abstract

Thermal expansion coefficients were measured for a cancrinite from Bancroft, Ontario, Canada. Measurements of cell parameters and unit-cell volumes were obtained at room temperature and at heating intervals of 50°C over the temperature range from 50 to 1400°C. The unit-cell parameters for cancrinite increase non-linearly with temperature up to 1200°C and shortly thereafter, the mineral melted. The c parameter increases more rapidly than the a parameter, and the c/a ratio increases linearly with temperature. A plausible thermal expansion mechanism for cancrinite, which is based on the framework expansion that occurs as a function of cavity content, is presented. In the thermal expansion of cancrinite, the short Na-H2O in the H2O-Na—H2O chain expands to form equal distances to the two H2O molecules in the chain. This causes the Na atoms to move towards the plane of the six-membered rings and forces the tetrahedra to rotate and the rings become more planar. The Na atoms then form bonds to all six (O1 and O2) oxygen atoms in a ring; the Na-O1 bonds become shorter and the Na-O2 bonds become longer. These effects cause an increase in both a and c, and thus an increase in the c/a ratio. A similar thermal expansion mechanism operates in the sodalite-group minerals where the six-membered rings and Na-Cl bond are involved.

Keywords

cancrinitecancrinite-groupthermal expansionpowder X-Ray diffraction
Type
Mineralogy
Information
Mineralogical Magazine , Volume 60 , Issue 403 , December 1996 , pp. 949 - 956
Copyright
Copyright © The Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland 1996

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