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High-pressure single-crystal X-ray diffraction study of jadeite and kosmochlor

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The crystal structures of natural jadeite, NaAlSi2O6, and synthetic kosmochlor, NaCrSi2O6, were studied at room temperature, under hydrostatic conditions, up to pressures of 30.4 (1) and 40.2 (1) GPa, respectively, using single-crystal synchrotron X-ray diffraction. Pressure–volume data have been fit to a third-order Birch–Murnaghan equation of state yielding V 0 = 402.5 (4) Å3, K 0 = 136 (3) GPa, and K ′0  = 3.3 (2) for jadeite and V 0 = 420.0 (3) Å3, K 0 = 123 (2) GPa and K ′0  = 3.61 (9) for kosmochlor. Both phases exhibit anisotropic compression with unit-strain axial ratios of 1.00:1.95:2.09 for jadeite at 30.4 (1) GPa and 1:00:2.15:2.43 for kosmochlor at 40.2 (1) GPa. Analysis of procrystal electron density distribution shows that the coordination of Na changes from 6 to 8 between 9.28 (Origlieri et al. in Am Mineral 88:1025–1032, 2003) and 18.5 (1) GPa in kosmochlor, which is also marked by a decrease in unit-strain anisotropy. Na in jadeite remains six-coordinated at 21.5 (1) GPa. Structure refinements indicate a change in the compression mechanism of kosmochlor at about 31 GPa in both the kinking of SiO4 tetrahedral chains and rate of tetrahedral compression. Below 31 GPa, the O3–O3–O3 chain extension angle and Si tetrahedral volume in kosmochlor decrease linearly with pressure, whereas above 31 GPa the kinking ceases and the rate of Si tetrahedral compression increases by greater than a factor of two. No evidence of phase transitions was observed over the studied pressure ranges.

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Acknowledgments

We thank Dr. Fabrizio Nestola for his helpful review and the editor for handling our manuscript. E. S. P. wishes to acknowledge the Downs Research Group for supporting her participation in this project. P. D. wishes to acknowledge National Science Foundation Division of Earth Sciences Geophysics Grant No. 1344942. Portions of this work were performed at GeoSoilEnviroCARS (Sector 13), Advanced Photon Source (APS), Argonne National Laboratory. GeoSoilEnviroCARS is supported by the National Science Foundation—Earth Sciences (EAR-1128799) and Department of Energy—Geosciences (DE-FG02-94ER14466). Use of the Advanced Photon Source was supported by the U. S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Office of Basic Energy Sciences, under Contract No. DE-AC02-06CH11357.

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  1. Department of Geosciences, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, 85721-0077, USA

    Esther S. Posner & Robert T. Downs

  2. School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology, Hawaii Institute of Geophysics and Planetology, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI, 96822, USA

    Przemyslaw Dera

  3. Argonne National Laboratory, Center for Advanced Radiation Sources, The University of Chicago, Building 434A 9700 South Cass Ave, Argonne, IL, 60439, USA

    Przemyslaw Dera & Peyton Irmen

  4. Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, 60208, USA

    John D. Lazarz

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Posner, E.S., Dera, P., Downs, R.T. et al. High-pressure single-crystal X-ray diffraction study of jadeite and kosmochlor. Phys Chem Minerals 41, 695–707 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00269-014-0684-y

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