Card No: 6348       Created: 19/02/2005    Last edition: 21/04/2017

Name: PALYGORSKITE
Specification: [6], DF
Formula: (Mg,Al)4Si8[O,OH,H2O]26 · 5H2O
Symmetry Class: orthorhombic
Space Group: P bmn
Unit Cell
Parameters:
a = 12.6720 | b = 17.8750 | c = 5.2360
Number of Formula Unit: Z = 2Unit Cell Volume, Å3: Vc = 1186.02
Number of Atomic Position
per full Unit Cell
:
P/U = 156 Molar Volume, cm3/mol: Vm = 357.19
Number of Reflexes used in
Structure Determination
:

-
X-ray density, g/cm3: p = 2.37
R-factor: R = 0.0369MU, 1/cm: µ = 65.247
Wave Length for Calculated
Powder Diffraction Patterns
:
Cu=1.54056Mass attenuation coefficient,
cm2/g
:
µ/p = 27.481
Theta-Interval for CPDP: T/I = 1-45