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Crystal structure of britvinite [Pb7(OH)3F(BO3)2(CO3)][Mg4.5(OH)3(Si5O14)]: A new layered silicate with an original type of silicon-oxygen networks

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The crystal structure of a new mineral britvinite Pb7.1Mg4.5(Si4.8Al0.2O14)(BO3)(CO3)[(BO3)0.7(SiO4)0.3](OH, F)6.7 from the Lángban iron-manganese skarn deposit (Värmland, Sweden) is determined at T = 173 K using X-ray diffraction (Stoe IPDS diffractometer, λMoKα, graphite monochromator, 2θmax = 58.43°, R = 0.052 for 6262 reflections). The main crystal data are as follows: a = 9.3409(8) Å, b = 9.3579(7) Å, c = 18.8333(14) Å, α = 80.365(6)°, β = 75.816(6)°, γ = 59.870(5)°, V = 1378.7(2) Å3, space group P1, Z = 2, and ρcalcd = 5.42 g/cm3. The idealized structural formula of the mineral is represented as [Pb7(OH)3F(BO3)2(CO3)][Mg4.5(OH)3(Si5O14)]. It is demonstrated that the mineral britvinite is a new representative of the group of mica-like layered silicates with structures in which three-layer (2: 1) “sandwiches” composed of tetrahedra and octahedra alternate with blocks of other compositions, such as oxide, oxide-carbonate, oxide-carbonate-sulfate, and other blocks. The tetrahedral networks (Si5O14)∞∞ consisting of twelve-membered rings are fragments of the britvinite structure. Similar networks also form crystal structures of the mineral zeophyllite and the synthetic phase Rb6Si10O23. In the crystal structures under consideration, the tetrahedral networks differ in the rotation of tetrahedra with respect to the layer plane.

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    O. V. Yakubovich

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  3. Institute of Problems of Chemical Physics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Chernogolovka, Moscow oblast, 142432, Russia

    N. V. Chukanov

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Original Russian Text © O.V. Yakubovich, W. Massa, N.V. Chukanov, 2008, published in Kristallografiya, 2008, Vol. 53, No. 2, pp. 233–242.

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Yakubovich, O.V., Massa, W. & Chukanov, N.V. Crystal structure of britvinite [Pb7(OH)3F(BO3)2(CO3)][Mg4.5(OH)3(Si5O14)]: A new layered silicate with an original type of silicon-oxygen networks. Crystallogr. Rep. 53, 206–215 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1063774508020077

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