Dehydration of the natural zeolite goosecreekite CaAl2Si 6O16·5H2O upon stepwise heating: A single-crystal and powder X-ray study

American Mineralogist

Volumn 96, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 1070-1078

  Wadoski, Eva ^a   Armbruster, Thomas ^a   Lazic, Biljana ^a   Fisch, Martin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Crystallography; Dehydration; Goosecreekite; Zeolite

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; DEHYDRATION; SILICON; SINGLE CRYSTALS; TOPOLOGY; X RAYS; ZEOLITES;

AMBIENT CONDITIONS; FRAMEWORK STRUCTURES; GOOSECREEKITE; PARTIAL DEHYDRATIONS; SINGLE-CRYSTAL AND POWDER; STRUCTURAL MODIFICATIONS; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENT; TETRAHEDRAL FRAMEWORK;

X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; DEHYDRATION; HEATING; NUMERICAL MODEL; POROUS MEDIUM; REHYDRATION; SILICATE MINERAL; THERMOGRAVIMETRY; TOPOLOGY; ZEOLITE;

EID: 79960513260     PISSN: 0003004X     EISSN: 19453027     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2138/am.2011.3746     Document Type: Article

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