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https://doi.org/10.5194/ejm-32-545-2020
https://doi.org/10.5194/ejm-32-545-2020
Research article
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23 Oct 2020
Research article |  | 23 Oct 2020

Structural study of decrespignyite-(Y), a complex yttrium rare earth copper carbonate chloride, by three-dimensional electron and synchrotron powder diffraction

Jordi Rius, Fernando Colombo, Oriol Vallcorba, Xavier Torrelles, Mauro Gemmi, and Enrico Mugnaioli

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The crystal structure of the mineral decrespignyite-(Y) from the Paratoo copper mine (South Australia) has been obtained by applying δ recycling direct methods to 3D electron diffraction data followed by Rietveld refinements of synchrotron powder diffraction data. Its structure mainly shows a metal layer sequence of polyhedra interconnecting hexanuclear (octahedral) oxo-hydroxo yttrium clusters along a ternary axis or tilted clusters to hetero-tetranuclear ones hosting Cu, Y and rare earths.