Abstract
A natural Ca-rich pigeonite (En47Fs43Wo10), free of augite exsolution products, was studied by in situ high-temperature single-crystal X-ray diffraction. The sample, monoclinic P2 1 /c (a=9.719(7) Å, b=8.947(9) Å, c=5.251(3) Å, β=108.49(5), V=433.0(6) Å3), was annealed up to 1000 °C to induce a phase transition from P2 1 /c to C2/c symmetry. Complete single-crystal X-ray diffraction data collections were carried out in situ at 650, 750, 850 and 950 °C after the crystal had reached equilibrium for the Fe–Mg intracrystalline exchange reaction at each temperature. The variation, with increasing temperature, of lattice parameters, of intensity of hkl reflections with h + k=2n + 1 (which vanish at high temperature) and of some geometrical parameters from structure refinement, showed that the displacive phase transition P2 1 /c⇆C2/c was continuous in character. This contrasts with the first-order character for the HT phase transition in pigeonite containing significantly less calcium.
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Received: 23 July 2001 / Accepted: 1 November 2001
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Cámara, F., Carpenter, M., Domeneghetti, M. et al. Non-convergent ordering and displacive phase transition in pigeonite: in situ HT XRD study. Phys Chem Min 29, 331–340 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00269-002-0241-y
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00269-002-0241-y