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Thermal expansion of ellinaite (β-CaCr2O4): an in-situ high temperature X-ray diffraction study

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The thermal expansion of orthorhombic CaFe2O4-type β-CaCr2O4, ellinaite, was studied by high temperature in-situ synchrotron X-ray diffraction measurements in the temperature range of 301–973 K at atmospheric pressure. Based on the obtained data, the thermal expansion coefficients of β-CaCr2O4 were determined as 2.84(3) × 10–5 K−1, 1.08(1) × 10–5 K−1, 0.79(1) × 10–5 K−1, 0.99(1) × 10–5 K−1 for volume, a-, b- and c axis, respectively. An anisotropic behavior was observed because the axial expansivity for the b axis is smaller than those of the a- and c axis. Combined with available experimental results, the isobaric heat capacity (Cp) of β-CaCr2O4 was evaluated by using a Kieffer’s model with Raman spectroscopy data and compared with previous studies. The isochoric heat capacity (Cv), standard entropy (S0298) and Debye temperature (θD) of β-CaCr2O4 were also determined.

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Acknowledgements

We thank Prof. Larissa Dobrzhinetskaya for the editorial handling. Critical comments and suggestion from two anonymous reviewers are helpful to improve the manuscript. The authors thank the in-situ synchrotron radiation X-ray diffraction experimental help from members at BL14B1, SSRF, China (Proposal no. 2018-SSRF-PT-007042). This work was financially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 41872045).

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Xue, W., Zhai, K. & Zhai, S. Thermal expansion of ellinaite (β-CaCr2O4): an in-situ high temperature X-ray diffraction study. Phys Chem Minerals 48, 2 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00269-020-01126-2

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