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Compressibility to 7 GPa at 298 K of the protonated octahedral framework mineral burtite, CaSn(OH)₆

¹ Department of Mineralogy, The Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW7 5BD, UK
² ESRF, 6 Rue Jules Horowitz, 38043 Grenoble, France

^* E-mail: mdw{at}nhm.ac.uk

The equation of state of synthetic deuterated burtite, CaSn(OD)₆, has been determined to 7.25 GPa at 298 K by synchrotron X-ray powder diffraction. Fitting to a third-order Birch-Murnaghan equation of state gives K₀ = 44.7(9) GPa and K₀' = 5.3(4). A second-order fit gives K₀ = 47.4(4) GPa. Within experimental error the two fits are indistinguishable over the pressure range studied. The decrease in the a parameter with pressure is smooth and no phase transitions were observed. Burtite is much more compressible (by a factor of three or four) than CaSnO₃ and CdSnO₃ perovskites, indicating that the absence of a cavity cation has a major effect upon the compressibility of the octahedral framework. Burtite is also markedly more compressible than the closely-related mineral stottite FeGe(OH)₆ (K₀ = 78 GPa). Their different compressibilities correlate with the relative compressibilities of stannate and germanate perovskites. Although different octahedral compressions are likely to be the primary reason for the different compressibilities of burtite and stottite, we also consider the possible secondary role of hydrogen-bonding topology in affecting the compressibilities of protonated octahedral frameworks. Burtite and stottite have different hydrogen-bonding topologies due to their different octahedral-tilt system. Burtite, space group Pn and tilt system a⁺a⁺a⁺, has a hydrogen-bonded network of linked four-membered rings of O-H...O linkages, whereas stottite, space group P4₂/n and tilt system a⁺a⁺c^–, has <100> O-H...O crankshafts and isolated four-membered rings. These different hydrogen-bonded configurations lead to different bracing of the empty cavity sites by the O-H...O linkages and very different hydrogen-bonding connectivities in these two minerals that may also enhance the difference between their compressibilities.

KEYWORDS: burtite, stottite, synchrotron, X-ray powder diffraction, high pressure, equation of state, hydrogen bonding

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