Determination of site population in olivine: Warning on X-ray data treatment and refinement

Autor: Merli, Marcello 1,2, Oberti, Roberta 1, Caucia, Franca 1,2, Ungaretti, Luciano 1,2
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2001
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Zdroj: The American mineralogist 86 (2001): 55–65.
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Popis: Leverage analysis enables identification of reflections with the greatest influence on the estimate of each refined variable, and thus may be an important tool to improve standard structure-refinement procedures, especially in the case of minerals with complex composition. In this work, leverage analysis was used to investigate in detail the influence of each reflection in high-resolution X-ray diffraction data collected from olivine, a mineral often used to model order-disorder processes and to calculate temperatures of closure and cooling rates of host rocks. Particular attention was paid to the estimate of the scattering power at the cation sites, that are crucial for the above studies. Various procedures for data correction and refinement were also investigated, and the different possible choices were compared to choose the strategy that provides the best results. The presence of high-leverage weak reflections in olivine strongly suggests that systematic data truncation according to intensity threshold should be avoided. The estimates of the site-scatterings obtained under the different conditions tested are very close (always
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