Quantitative determination of binary and tertiary calcium carbonate mixtures using powder X-ray diffraction
- 18 June 2001
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) in The Analyst
- Vol. 126 (7) , 1118-1121
- https://doi.org/10.1039/b103004n
Abstract
The ability to determine the calcium carbonate polymorphic ratio of calcite, aragonite and vaterite in a mixture is important for a variety of applications, particularly the fields of biomineralisation and crystal engineering. Raman spectroscopy and powder X-ray diffraction were used to quantitatively determine the polymorphic composition of both binary and tertiary mixtures of calcium carbonate. It was found that the quantitative detection limits of powder X-ray diffraction were superior to both Raman and infrared spectroscopy.Keywords
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