Figure 26
(a) A ball-and-stick representation of the 1T23T2 chain in astrophyllite-supergroup minerals and the structure of astrophyllite showing (b) the H sheet (and I-block cations); (c) the HOH block, I block and O sheet. The A and B cations are shown as grey and green circles, respectively. The D cations are shown as purple Ti octahedra and the Fe octahedra of the O sheet are shown in pink. H atoms are shown as red circles. Dashed black lines show the geometrical repeat unit of the chain. |