Card No: 5717       Created: 03/04/2003    Last edition: 13/01/2009

Name: PALYGORSKITE
Specification: [3]
Formula: (Mg,Al)4Si8[O,OH,H2O]24 · 4H2O
Symmetry Class: monoclinic-beta
Space Group: C 2/m
Unit Cell
Parameters:
a = 13.3040 | b = 17.8760 | c = 5.2510 | beta = 107.0900
Number of Formula Unit: Z = 2Unit Cell Volume, Å3: Vc = 1193.66
Number of Atomic Position
per full Unit Cell
:
P/U = 84 Molar Volume, cm3/mol: Vm = 359.49
Number of Reflexes used in
Structure Determination
:

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X-ray density, g/cm3: p = 2.28
R-factor: -MU, 1/cm: µ = 64.241
Wave Length for Calculated
Powder Diffraction Patterns
:
Cu=1.54056Mass attenuation coefficient,
cm2/g
:
µ/p = 28.166
Theta-Interval for CPDP: T/I = 1-45