Electron paramagnetic resonance study of iron(III) and manganese(II) in the glassy and crystalline environments of synthetic fayalite and tephroite |
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| Authors: | Sandip K Sur Thomas F Cooney |
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| Institution: | 1. Department of Chemistry, University of Oregon, 97403, Eugene, OR, USA
2. Hawaii Institute of Geophysics, University of Hawaii at Manoa, 96822, Honolulu, HI, USA
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| Abstract: | Crystals of the olivine minerals, tephroite (Mn2SiO4) and fayalite (Fe2SiO4) containing manganese(II) and iron (II and trace of III), respectively, were synthesized. Glasses were prepared from these crystalline materials by a splat-quench technique. Measurement of electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) of all these powdered samples at room temperature show that the g-factors of Mn2+ in both glassy and crystalline environments (geff = 2.004) are the same, although the EPR linewidths (for glass, ΔHpp = 200 G; for crystals ΔHpp = 287 G) suggest less clustering of paramagnetic Mn2+ ions in the glass. Mn2+ probably occupies a distorted octahedral site in the tephroite crystal structure, although a four-fold coordination is suggested from other spectroscopic investigation on this glass. The EPR parameters of Fe3+ in synthetic fayalite glass (geff = 2.01 and 6.00; ΔHpp=150 and 1375 G, respectively, for the high and low field resonances) and powdered crystals (geff = 3.31 and ΔHpp = 900 G) indicated that Fe3+ ion in the crystals, is probably located in a distorted tetragonal site M2 and an axial environment has been proposed in the glassy system. |
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