Flux-grown spinel crystals belonging to the MgAl2O4-MgCr2O4 spinel series were investigated to reveal the effects of Cr substituting for Al on cation distribution and their influence on Mg-Al intra- crystalline exchange. Samples were structurally and chemically characterized by single-crystal X-ray diffraction and electron microprobe, and cation distribution was obtained with a tested optimization model for site populations. The results evidenced that the contribution of the tetrahedral bond distance to the unit-cell parameter is smaller than that of the octahedral bond distance, which is driven by the substitution of Cr for Al. Moreover, the influence that Cr exerts on Mg-Al order-disorder intersite exchange is non-linear along the whole series. The comparison between the cation distributions derived from crystal-chemical data and the O’Neill-Navrotsky thermodynamic model (with αMg-Al = 23 kJ/mol and bMg-Al = 13 kJ/mol) shows large discrepancies, which can be reconciled assuming αMg-Al values variable from 23 to 100 kJ/mol as a function of Cr. This suggests that, irrespective of temperature, the Al ordering at the octahedrally coordinated site increases with increasing Cr substitution for Al. The geothermometric implications of the present study point out that closure temperatures, calculated from a well-tested intersite geother- mometer, are reliable for spinels with magnesiochromite component smaller than 85%, i.e., Cr/(Cr+Al) < 0.85, whereas spinels with larger magnesiochromite component yield unreliable closure temperature.

Chromium influence on Mg-Al intracrystalline exchange in spinels and geothermometric implications / Bosi, Ferdinando; Andreozzi, Giovanni Battista. - In: THE AMERICAN MINERALOGIST. - ISSN 1945-3027. - STAMPA. - 102:2(2017), pp. 333-340. [10.2138/am-2016-5821]

Chromium influence on Mg-Al intracrystalline exchange in spinels and geothermometric implications

BOSI, Ferdinando
;
ANDREOZZI, Giovanni Battista
2017

Abstract

Flux-grown spinel crystals belonging to the MgAl2O4-MgCr2O4 spinel series were investigated to reveal the effects of Cr substituting for Al on cation distribution and their influence on Mg-Al intra- crystalline exchange. Samples were structurally and chemically characterized by single-crystal X-ray diffraction and electron microprobe, and cation distribution was obtained with a tested optimization model for site populations. The results evidenced that the contribution of the tetrahedral bond distance to the unit-cell parameter is smaller than that of the octahedral bond distance, which is driven by the substitution of Cr for Al. Moreover, the influence that Cr exerts on Mg-Al order-disorder intersite exchange is non-linear along the whole series. The comparison between the cation distributions derived from crystal-chemical data and the O’Neill-Navrotsky thermodynamic model (with αMg-Al = 23 kJ/mol and bMg-Al = 13 kJ/mol) shows large discrepancies, which can be reconciled assuming αMg-Al values variable from 23 to 100 kJ/mol as a function of Cr. This suggests that, irrespective of temperature, the Al ordering at the octahedrally coordinated site increases with increasing Cr substitution for Al. The geothermometric implications of the present study point out that closure temperatures, calculated from a well-tested intersite geother- mometer, are reliable for spinels with magnesiochromite component smaller than 85%, i.e., Cr/(Cr+Al) < 0.85, whereas spinels with larger magnesiochromite component yield unreliable closure temperature.
2017
electron microprobe; crystal synthesis; X-ray diffraction; spinel; magnesiochromite,; geothermometer
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Chromium influence on Mg-Al intracrystalline exchange in spinels and geothermometric implications / Bosi, Ferdinando; Andreozzi, Giovanni Battista. - In: THE AMERICAN MINERALOGIST. - ISSN 1945-3027. - STAMPA. - 102:2(2017), pp. 333-340. [10.2138/am-2016-5821]
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