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We report on this paper on the Mössbauer characterisation of the family of synthetic helvite analogues, Fe4M4[BeSiO4]6X2 (M = Fe, Mn, Zn; X = S, Se). The data show iron to be present as high spin Fe(II) in tetrahedral coordination. The room temperature Mössbauer spectra are composed either by singlets or doublets with small quadrupole splitting values suggesting a small valence contribution at that temperature. From the dependence of the quadrupole splitting with temperature the separation Δ between the two \(e_{g}\) orbitals has been estimated. The values of \({\Delta } \) range from 46.3 cm− 1 for the material Fe8[BeSiO4]6S2 to 58.2 cm1 for the material Fe4Zn4[BeSiO4]6S2. The lack of long-range magnetic order observed in the Mössbauer spectra was confirmed by neutron diffraction data which suggests that the M4X units are largely magnetically isolated within their cages leading to a frustrated magnet with no long range interaction for the sulfide species.
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This article is part of the Topical Collection on Proceedings of the 4th Mediterranean Conference on the Applications of the Mössbauer Effect (MECAME 2018), Zadar, Croatia, 27–31 May 2018
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Dann, S.E., Neumann, K.U. & Marco, J.F. Mössbauer characterisation of synthetic analogues of the helvite minerals Fe4M4[BeSiO4]6X2 (M = Fe, Mn, Zn; X = S, Se). Hyperfine Interact 239, 28 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10751-018-1498-y
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