9Mg(OH)(2)·MgCl(2)·4H(2)O, a high temperature phase of the magnesia binder system
Robert E Dinnebier1, Daniela Freyer, Sebastian Bette
1Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research, Heisenbergstrasse 1, D-70569 Stuttgart, Germany. r.dinnebier@fkf.mpg.de
Abstract:
The metastable phase 9Mg(OH)(2)·MgCl(2)·4H(2)O (9-1-4 phase) was found at the extended metastable isotherm of Mg(OH)(2) in the system MgO-MgCl(2)-H(2)O at 120 °C and occurs as intermediate binder phase during setting of magnesia cement due to temperature development of the setting reaction. The crystal structure of the 9-1-4 phase was solved from high resolution laboratory X-ray powder diffraction data in space group I2/m (C2/m) (a = 22.2832(3) Å, b = 3.13501(4) Å, c = 8.1316(2) Å, β = 97.753(1)°, V = 562.86(2) Å(3), and Z = 1). Structural and characteristical relations of the phases in the system MgO-MgCl(2)-H(2)O can be derived, with which the development of the cement or concrete qualities becomes explainable.
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