Ruiz Hernandez, Sergio  ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3149-7331, Grau-Crespo, Ricardo, Ruiz-Salvador, A. Rabdel and de Leeuw, Nora ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8271-0545
2010.
Thermochemistry of strontium incorporation in aragonite from atomistic simulations.
Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta
74
(4)
, pp. 1320-1328.
10.1016/j.gca.2009.10.049
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Abstract
We have investigated the thermodynamics of mixing between aragonite (orthorhombic CaCO3) and strontianite (SrCO3). In agreement with experiment, our simulations predict that there is a miscibility gap between the two solids at ambient conditions. All SrxCa1−xCO3 solids with compositions 0.12 < x < 0.87 are metastable with respect to separation into a Ca-rich and a Sr-rich phase. The concentration of Sr in coral aragonites (x ∼ 0.01) lies in the miscibility region of the phase diagram, and therefore formation of separated Sr-rich phases in coral aragonites is not thermodynamically favorable. The miscibility gap disappears at around 380 K. The enthalpy of mixing, which is positive and nearly symmetric with respect to x = 0.5, is the dominant contribution to the excess free energy, while the vibrational and configurational entropic contributions are small and of opposite sign. We provide a detailed comparison of our simulation results with available experimental data.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Status: | Published |
| Schools: | Schools > Chemistry |
| Subjects: | Q Science > QD Chemistry |
| Publisher: | Elsevier |
| ISSN: | 0016-7037 |
| Last Modified: | 01 Nov 2022 09:36 |
| URI: | https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/88551 |
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