The crystal structure of a natural erionite from Nizhnyaya Tunguska, Siberia (schematic formula K2Ca3.5Al9Si27O72·32H2O) has been refined to a residual wR of 0.044. The erionite framework can be described by a sequence AABAAC... of 6-membered rings of tetrahedra. The (Si, Al) distribution (24% of Al in T1 and 31% of Al in T2) is consistent with the strong disorder found in tetrahedral sites for all zeolites that can be described by a sequence of 6-rings. Erionite, as in the closely related zeolite offretite, shows a slight enrichment of Al in the single 6-ring. Potassium is at the center of the cancrinite cage and coordinates 6 framework oxygen atoms. Calcium atoms alternately occupy three sites, quite near each other, on the triad axis parallel to c, at the center of the erionite cage. Their coordination no. varies between 6 and 9. The marked differences in T-O distances found between hydrated and dehydrated erionite are explained in terms of interactions between extra-framework ions and framework oxygens.

A reexamination of the crystal structure of erionite / A., Alberti; A., Martucci; Galli, Ermanno; Vezzalini, Maria Giovanna. - In: ZEOLITES. - ISSN 0144-2449. - STAMPA. - 19:(1997), pp. 349-352.

A reexamination of the crystal structure of erionite

GALLI, Ermanno;VEZZALINI, Maria Giovanna
1997

Abstract

The crystal structure of a natural erionite from Nizhnyaya Tunguska, Siberia (schematic formula K2Ca3.5Al9Si27O72·32H2O) has been refined to a residual wR of 0.044. The erionite framework can be described by a sequence AABAAC... of 6-membered rings of tetrahedra. The (Si, Al) distribution (24% of Al in T1 and 31% of Al in T2) is consistent with the strong disorder found in tetrahedral sites for all zeolites that can be described by a sequence of 6-rings. Erionite, as in the closely related zeolite offretite, shows a slight enrichment of Al in the single 6-ring. Potassium is at the center of the cancrinite cage and coordinates 6 framework oxygen atoms. Calcium atoms alternately occupy three sites, quite near each other, on the triad axis parallel to c, at the center of the erionite cage. Their coordination no. varies between 6 and 9. The marked differences in T-O distances found between hydrated and dehydrated erionite are explained in terms of interactions between extra-framework ions and framework oxygens.
1997
19
349
352
A reexamination of the crystal structure of erionite / A., Alberti; A., Martucci; Galli, Ermanno; Vezzalini, Maria Giovanna. - In: ZEOLITES. - ISSN 0144-2449. - STAMPA. - 19:(1997), pp. 349-352.
A., Alberti; A., Martucci; Galli, Ermanno; Vezzalini, Maria Giovanna
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