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Room temperature 57Fe Mössbauer spectroscopy has been used to obtain information on the redox and coordination of iron in tektites. A MIMOS II spectrometer in backscattering geometry has been used in the study, so that no sample preparation at all was required. X-ray fluorescence has been used to determine the composition of the tektites. Mössbauer spectra have been deconvoluted using three extended Voigt-based profiles to allow quantitative analysis of iron atoms valence and coordination. In all tektites, the Fe\(^{2+ }\)sites have been distinguished in Fe with octahedral and tetrahedral coordination. The Fe\(^{2+}\)octahedral sites show a region of isomer shift (IS) and quadrupole splitting (QS), IS \(=\) 1.02–1.14 mm/s and QS \(=\) 1.82–2.12 mm/s, relative to \(\alpha \)-Fe. The Fe\(^{2+ }\)tetrahedral sites show a region of hyperfine parameters of IS = 0.59–0.89 mm/s and QS = 1.14–1.60 mm/s. The Fe3+sites show IS = 0.11–0.33 mm/s and QS = 0.02–0.04 mm/s. The Fe3+/Fe2+ ratio was found to be 0.025–0.149.
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Proceedings of the 32nd International Conference on the Applications of the Mössbauer Effect (ICAME 2013) held in Opatija, Croatia, 1-6 September 2013
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Costa, B.F.O., Klingelhöfer, G., Panthöfer, M. et al. Backscattering Mössbauer MIMOS II and XRF studies on tektites from different strewn fields. Hyperfine Interact 226, 613–619 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10751-013-0986-3
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