Compressibility and pressure-induced structural evolution of kokchetavite, hexagonal polymorph of KAlSi3O8, by single-crystal X-ray diffraction.

Autor: Romanenko, Alexandr V., Rashchenko, Sergey V., Korsakov, Andrey V., Sokol, Alexander G., Kokh, Konstantin A.
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Zdroj: American Mineralogist; Jul2024, Vol. 109 Issue 7, p1284-1291, 8p
Abstrakt: Compressibility and pressure-induced structural evolution of kokchetavite, the hexagonal polymorph of KAlSi3O8, has been studied up to 11.8 GPa using synchrotron single-crystal X-ray diffraction. Two phase transitions were observed at pressures of ~0.3 and 10.4 GPa. Kokchetavite-I (as-synthesized, P6/mcc) transforms into kokchetavite-II with the P 6 c2 space group. Kokchetavite-II → kokchetavite-III phase transition at ~10.4 GPa is accompanied by a change of symmetry to probably orthorhombic. After pressure release, kokchetavite reverts to the initial single-crystal state with P6/mcc space group. A second-order Birch-Murnaghan equation of state was calculated for phase kokchetavite-II with coefficients V0 = 1486(3) Å3, K0 = 59(2) GPa. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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