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Quantitative analysis of synthetic calcium carbonate polymorphs using FT-IR spectroscopy
N V Vagenas1, A Gatsouli, C G Kontoyannis
1Institute of Chemical Engineering and High Temperature Chemical Processes, ICEHT-FORTH, University Campus, Patras, Greece.
Abstract:
Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy (FT-IR) was used successfully for the simultaneous quantitative analysis of calcium carbonate phases (calcite, aragonite, vaterite) in ternary mixtures. From the FT-IR spectra of pure calcite, aragonite and vaterite powders with KBr, the absorptivities, alpha, of the absorption bands at 713 cm(-1) for calcite, 745 cm(-1) for vaterite, 713 and 700 cm(-1) for aragonite, were determined. In order to overcome the absorption band overlapping a set of equations based on Beer's law was developed. The detection limits were also established and found to be 1.1 x 10(-4) mg calcite per mm(2) of pellet at 713 cm(-1), 3.6 x 10(-4) mg aragonite per mm(2) of pellet at 700 cm(-1), 1.8 x 10(-4) mg aragonite per mm(2) of pellet at 713 cm(-1) and 3.1 x 10(-4) mg vaterite per mm(2) of pellet at 745 cm(-1). Analysis of a known ternary mixture of calcium carbonate polymorphs tested the validity of the method.
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