Elastic stiffness coefficients of thenardite and their pressure and temperature dependence
The elastic stiffness coefficients, cij , of orthorhombic Na2SO4 thenardite (space group Fddd) were measured with an ultrasonic plane wave technique at ambient temperature as a function of hydrostatic pressure in the range of 0.1 – 70 MPa. The variation of the cij in the range of 1 – 5000 MPa was st...
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| Format: | Journal Article |
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R Oldenbourg Verlag
2012
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/3198 |
| Summary: | The elastic stiffness coefficients, cij , of orthorhombic Na2SO4 thenardite (space group Fddd) were measured with an ultrasonic plane wave technique at ambient temperature as a function of hydrostatic pressure in the range of 0.1 – 70 MPa. The variation of the cij in the range of 1 – 5000 MPa was studied with density functional theory (DFT) based calculations. The experimental results and the DFT calculations were used to derive a force-field model, which was then employed to compute lattice parameters and elastic stiffness tensors of thenardite and of two other Na2SO4 polymorphs as functions of the temperature based on quasi-harmonic lattice dynamics. The structural parameters of the three polymorphs measured at high temperatures are reproduced to within 1.7% by the present calculations. Phases II (space group Pbnm) and III (Cmcm) appear to have significantly higher entropies than thenardite in agreement with their metastable formation at higher temperatures. |
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