High-resolution X-ray Powder Diffraction (high-resolution + x-ray_powder_diffraction)

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Selected Abstracts


DETERMINATION OF PIGMENTS AND BINDERS IN POMPEIAN WALL PAINTINGS USING SYNCHROTRON RADIATION , HIGH-RESOLUTION X-RAY POWDER DIFFRACTION AND CONVENTIONAL SPECTROSCOPY , CHROMATOGRAPHY

ARCHAEOMETRY, Issue 2 2010
A. DURAN
The employment of synchrotron techniques complemented by conventional laboratory systems has allowed us to deepen and improve our knowledge of Roman wall painting procedures. The palette identified in wall paintings from Pompeii and Herculaneum from the second century bc includes goethite, hematite, cinnabar, glauconite, Egyptian blue, and other components such as calcite and aragonite. Proof of the use of organic binders is provided by FTIR and PY,GC/MS. Therefore, the possibility of the use of ,a secco' techniques cannot be ruled out. Pigments in wall paintings are usually found in small percentages and conventional X-ray diffractometers do not detect them. Synchrotron radiation , high-resolution X-ray powder diffraction has allowed identification with only a few micrograms of sample. [source]


Structural behaviour of synthetic Co2SiO4 at low temperatures

ACTA CRYSTALLOGRAPHICA SECTION B, Issue 6 2008
Andrew Sazonov
Synthetic Co2SiO4 has an olivine structure with isolated SiO4 groups (space group Pnma) and shows magnetic ordering below 50,K. Single-crystal neutron diffraction was applied to determine precise crystal structure parameters at low temperatures. No structural phase transition was revealed in the temperature range 2.5,300,K. Lattice parameters were determined by high-resolution X-ray powder diffraction between 15 and 300,K. There is a clear evidence of an anomalous thermal expansion related to the magnetic phase transition which can be attributed to magnetostriction. [source]


Herringbone array of hydrogen-bonded ribbons in 2-ethoxybenzamide from high-resolution X-ray powder diffraction

ACTA CRYSTALLOGRAPHICA SECTION C, Issue 11 2009
Silvina Pagola
In 2-ethoxybenzamide, C9H11NO2, the amide substituents are linked into centrosymmetric head-to-head hydrogen-bonded dimers. Additional hydrogen bonds between adjacent dimers give rise to ribbon-like packing motifs, which extend along the c axis and possess a third dimension caused by twisting of the 2-ethoxyphenyl substituent with respect to the hydrogen-bonded amide groups. The ribbons are arranged in a T-shaped herringbone pattern and cohesion between them is achieved by van der Waals forces. [source]


EuI2, a low-temperature europium(II) iodide phase

ACTA CRYSTALLOGRAPHICA SECTION C, Issue 10 2009
Michael Krings
Light-yellow europium(II) diiodide, prepared by the low-temperature reaction of europium and ammonium iodide in liquid ammonia at 200,K and characterized by high-resolution X-ray powder diffraction, represents a new phase for EuI2 that adopts an orthorhombic Pnma structure with all three atoms lying on 4c positions (.m.). It is isotypic with SrI2(IV). Temperature-dependent X-ray measurements performed to investigate the thermal stability of the new phase show that it decomposes irreversibly to amorphous material around 673,K. Total-energy density-functional calculations using the generalized gradient approximation suggest this to be the ground-state structure of EuI2. [source]


DETERMINATION OF PIGMENTS AND BINDERS IN POMPEIAN WALL PAINTINGS USING SYNCHROTRON RADIATION , HIGH-RESOLUTION X-RAY POWDER DIFFRACTION AND CONVENTIONAL SPECTROSCOPY , CHROMATOGRAPHY

ARCHAEOMETRY, Issue 2 2010
A. DURAN
The employment of synchrotron techniques complemented by conventional laboratory systems has allowed us to deepen and improve our knowledge of Roman wall painting procedures. The palette identified in wall paintings from Pompeii and Herculaneum from the second century bc includes goethite, hematite, cinnabar, glauconite, Egyptian blue, and other components such as calcite and aragonite. Proof of the use of organic binders is provided by FTIR and PY,GC/MS. Therefore, the possibility of the use of ,a secco' techniques cannot be ruled out. Pigments in wall paintings are usually found in small percentages and conventional X-ray diffractometers do not detect them. Synchrotron radiation , high-resolution X-ray powder diffraction has allowed identification with only a few micrograms of sample. [source]