Characterization of local atomic environment and quantitative determination of changes in site occupancies during the formation of ordered synthetic cordierite by 29Si and 27Al magic-angle spinning n.m.r. spectroscopy

Abstract
Eight distinct tetrahedral sites for silicon can be identified and assigned in freshly crystallized (hexagonal) synthetic cordierite, Mg2Al4Si5O18, four in the chain manifold and four in the six-membered aluminosilicate rings, but there are only two sites (one in the rings, the other in the chains) in the aged (orthorhombic) product; Si:Al ratios within each manifold can be determined from the 29Si magic-angle spinning n.m.r. spectra which also permit the course of Si, Al ordering to be charted as thermodynamic equilibrium is approached.

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