The high-pressure C2/c–P21/c phase transition along the LiAlSi2O6–LiGaSi2O6 solid solution

Autor: Tiziana Boffa Ballaran, Fabrizio Nestola, Haruo Ohashi
Rok vydání: 2008
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Zdroj: Physics and Chemistry of Minerals. 35:477-484
ISSN: 1432-2021
0342-1791
DOI: 10.1007/s00269-008-0242-6
Popis: Two synthetic single-crystals with composition Li(Al0.53Ga0.47)Si2O6 and LiGaSi2O6 and space group C2/c at room conditions have been studied under pressure by means of X-ray diffraction using a diamond anvil cell. The unit-cell parameters were determined at 12 and 10 different pressures up to P = 8.849 and P = 7.320 GPa for Li(Al0.53Ga0.47)Si2O6 and LiGaSi2O6, respectively. The sample with mixed composition shows a C2/c to P21/c phase transformation between 1.814 and 2.156 GPa, first-order in character. The transition is characterised by a large and discontinuous decrease in the unit-cell volume and by the appearance of the b-type reflections (h + k = odd) typical of the primitive symmetry. The Ga end-member shows the same C2/c to P21/c transformation at a pressure between 0.0001 and 0.39 GPa. The low-pressure value at which the transition occurred did not allow collecting any data in the C2/c pressure stability field except that on room pressure. Our results compared with those relative to spodumene (LiAlSi2O6, Arlt and Angel 2000a) indicate that the substitution of Al for Ga at the M1 site of Li-clinopyroxenes strongly affects the transition pressure causing a decrease from 3.17 GPa (spodumene) to less than 0.39 GPa (LiGaSi2O6) and decreases the volume discontinuity at the transition. As already found for other compounds, the C2/c low-pressure phases are more rigid than the P21 /c high-pressure ones. Moreover, the increase of the M1 cation radius causes a decrease in the bulk modulus K T0. The axial compressibility among the Li-bearing clinopyroxenes indicates that the c axis is the most rigid for the C2/c phases while it becomes the most compressible for the P21 /c phases.
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