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Sodalite: Spectroscopic and Thermochemical Investigations

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Two sodalite samples (sample I is Na8Al6Si6O24Cl2⋅0.4H2O from the Kovdor alkaline ultramafic massif with carbonatites in the Murmansk region, Russia, and sample II is Na8Al6Si6O24Cl2⋅0.2H2O from the Bayan Kol nepheline syenite and miaskite massif in the Republic of Tyva) were studied by thermal and electron-microprobe analyses, powder X-ray diffraction, photoluminescence, and by IR, Raman, and ESR spectroscopy. Solution melt calorimetry was applied to determine the enthalpy of formation from elements for water-bearing sodalite samples: −13536 ± 10 (I) and −13503 ± 19 (II) kJ/mol. The enthalpy of formation of sodalite of the theoretical composition Na8Al6Si6O24Cl2 was evaluated at ΔfH0(298.15 K) = −13446 ± 11 kJ/mol. The data obtained on the enthalpy of formation of sodalite and literature data on its S0(298.15 K) were used to calculate the standard Gibbs energies of formation of anhydrous and of water-bearing sodalite.

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    Yu. D. Gritsenko, E. N. Eremina, M. F. Vigasina, S. V. Vyatkin, V. V. Maltsev & L. V. Melchakova

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    Yu. D. Gritsenko & L. P. Ogorodova

  3. Kola Science Centre, Laboratory of Arctic Mineralogy and Materials Science, Russian Academy of Sciences, 184209, Apatity, Murmansk region, Russia

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Gritsenko, Y.D., Eremina, E.N., Vigasina, M.F. et al. Sodalite: Spectroscopic and Thermochemical Investigations. Geochem. Int. 61, 735–743 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0016702923060046

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