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In situ high-pressure investigations on norsethite, BaMg(CO3)2, have been performed in sequence of diamond-anvil cell experiments by means of single-crystal X-ray and synchrotron diffraction and Raman spectroscopy. Isothermal hydrostatic compression at room temperature yields a high-pressure phase transition at P c ≈ 2.32 ± 0.04 GPa, which is weakly first order in character and reveals significant elastic softening of the high-pressure form of norsethite. X-ray structure determination reveals C2/c symmetry (Z = 4; a = 8.6522(14) Å, b = 4.9774(13) Å, c = 11.1542(9) Å, β = 104.928(8)°, V = 464.20(12) Å3 at 3.00 GPa), and the structure refinement (R 1 = 0.0763) confirms a distorted, but topologically similar crystal structure of the so-called γ-norsethite, with Ba in 12-fold and Mg in octahedral coordination. The CO3 groups were found to get tilted off the ab-plane direction by ~16.5°. Positional shifts, in particular of the Ba atoms and the three crystallographically independent oxygen sites, give a higher flexibility for atomic displacements, from which both the relatively higher compressibility and the remarkable softening originate. The corresponding bulk moduli are K 0 = 66.2 ± 2.3 GPa and dK/dP = 2.0 ± 1.8 for α-norsethite and K 0 = 41.9 ± 0.4 GPa and dK/dP = 6.1 ± 0.3 for γ-norsethite, displaying a pronounced directional anisotropy (α: β −1 a = 444(53) GPa, β −1 c = 76(2) GPa; γ: β −1 a = 5.1(1.3) × 103 GPa, β −1 b = 193(6) GPa β −1 c = 53.4(0.4) GPa). High-pressure Raman spectra show a significant splitting of several modes, which were used to identify the transformation in high-pressure high-temperature experiments in the range up to 4 GPa and 542 K. Based on the experimental series of data points determined by XRD and Raman measurements, the phase boundary of the α-to-γ-transition was determined with a Clausius–Clapeyron slope of 9.8(7) × 10−3 GPa K−1. An in situ measurement of the X-ray intensities was taken at 1.5 GPa and 411 K in order to identify the nature of the structural variation on increased temperatures corresponding to the previously reported transformation from α- to β-norsethite at 343 K and 1 bar. The investigations revealed, in contrast to all X-ray diffraction data recorded at 298 K, the disappearance of the superstructure reflections and the observed reflection conditions confirm the anticipated \(R\bar{3}m\) space-group symmetry. The same superstructure reflections, which disappear as temperature increases, were found to gain in intensity due to the positional shift of the Ba atoms in the γ-phase.
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The authors would like to thank Wilson Crichton and Michael Hanfland for their support with the synchrotron experiments at ID09, ESRF. Furthermore, we thank Julian Haines for making available Sm2+:SrB4O7 sensor material for our experiments. Marco Merlini acknowledges support from the Deep Carbon Observatory. Finally, the authors highly appreciate the valuable suggestions and great effort of the two reviewers, which significantly improved the manuscript.
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Pippinger, T., Miletich, R., Effenberger, H. et al. High-pressure polymorphism and structural transitions of norsethite, BaMg(CO3)2 . Phys Chem Minerals 41, 737–755 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00269-014-0687-8
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