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We have collected high resolution neutron powder diffraction patterns from Na2SO4·10D2O over the temperature range 4.2–300 K following rapid quenching in liquid nitrogen, and over a series of slow warming and cooling cycles. The crystal is monoclinic, space-group P21/c (Z = 4) with a = 11.44214(4) Å, b = 10.34276(4) Å, c = 12.75486(6) Å, β = 107.847(1)°, and V = 1436.794(8) Å3 at 4.2 K (slowly cooled), and a = 11.51472(6) Å, b = 10.36495(6) Å, c = 12.84651(7) Å, β = 107.7543(1)°, V = 1460.20(1) Å3 at 300 K. Structures were refined to R P (Rietveld powder residual, \( R_{P} = {{\sum {\left| {I_{\text{obs}} - I_{\text{calc}} } \right|} } \mathord{\left/ {\vphantom {{\sum {\left| {I_{\text{obs}} - I_{\text{calc}} } \right|} } {\sum {I_{\text{obs}} } }}} \right. \kern-\nulldelimiterspace} {\sum {I_{\text{obs}} } }} \)) better than 2.5% at 4.2 K (quenched and slow cooled), 150 and 300 K. The sulfate disorder observed previously by Levy and Lisensky (Acta Cryst B34:3502–3510, 1978) was not present in our specimen, but we did observe changes with temperature in deuteron occupancies of the orientationally disordered water molecules coordinated to Na. The temperature dependence of the unit-cell volume from 4.2 to 300 K is well represented by a simple polynomial of the form V = − 4.143(1) × 10−7 T 3 + 0.00047(2) T2 − 0.027(2) T + 1437.0(1) Å3 (R 2 = 99.98%). The coefficient of volume thermal expansion, α V , is positive above 40 K, and displays a similar magnitude and temperature dependence to α V in deuterated epsomite and meridianiite. The relationship between the magnitude and orientation of the principal axes of the thermal expansion tensor and the main structural elements are discussed; freezing in of deuteron disorder in the quenched specimen affects the thermal expansion, manifested most obviously as a change in the behaviour of the unit-cell parameter β.
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The authors wish to thank the STFC ISIS facility for beam time, and technical support staff for invaluable assistance. HEAB is funded by a postgraduate studentship from the Natural Environment Research Council; ADF is funded by the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC), UK, grant numbers PPA/P/S/2003/00247 and PP/E006515/1.
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Brand, H.E.A., Fortes, A.D., Wood, I.G. et al. The thermal expansion and crystal structure of mirabilite (Na2SO4·10D2O) from 4.2 to 300 K, determined by time-of-flight neutron powder diffraction. Phys Chem Minerals 36, 29–46 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00269-008-0256-0
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