Crystal chemistry and petrology of coexisting galaxite and jacobsite and other spinel solutions and solvi '
Galaxite (Gx:MnAlzO+) and jacobsite ("ID:MnFezO+)-rich spinels occur together in the metamorphosed manganese deposit near Bald Knob, North Carolina. They show limited mutual solubility with lz-lgVa Jb in Gx and 19-22% Gx in Jb. The implied solvus is consistent with syntheses oflshida et al. (1977) along the Gx-"ID pseudobinary. Refinement of the structure of one galaxite (Gxg5JbrcSpaGhr) reveals that Mn is located on tetrahedral sites and Al on octahedral sites and that galaxite is therefore a normal spinel. All available data suggest that jacobsite is also a normal spinel at low temperatures, and the solvus between galaxite and jacobsite does not seem to be caused by differences in normality/inverseness. Chemical and experimental data available for (Mg,Zn,Mg,Fe2*XFe3*,Al)zOa spinels suggest hat the ferrites (acobsite, franklinite, magnesioferrite and magnetite) show extensive solid solution and are separated from aluminate solid solutions (galaxite, gahnite, spinel (s.s.) and hercynite) by wide solvi at metamorphic temperatures.
Structural properties of Mn-substituted hercynite
Abstract In this work spinel series with the general formula Fe1-xMnxAl2O4 (where x = 0, 0.3, 0.5 and 0.7) were synthesized and characterized with respect to their structure and microstructure. X-ray diffractometry (XRD) was used to identify the phase composition that revealed a single phase spinel material. Rietveld refinements of the XRD patterns were carried out in order to determine the lattice and oxygen positional parameters of the spinel compounds. Mössbauer effect measurements were performed at room temperature to determine the local chemical environment of the Fe ions, their valences, and degrees of spinels inversion. It was shown that an increase in the Mn content led to a decrease in the ratio of Fe2+ to Fe3+. The results obtained from Mössbauer spectroscopy (MS) were used to establish the chemical formulas of the synthesized spinels. Finally, the microstructure that was observed using scanning electron microscopy (SEM) showed a compact microstructure with an octahedral crystal habit.
Compressive and flexural properties of hemp fiber reinforced concrete
The compressive and flexural properties of hemp fiber reinforced concretes (FRC) were examined in this paper. Natural hemp fiber was mixed using dry and wet mixing methods to fabricate the FRC. Mechanical properties of the FRC were investigated. The main factors affecting compressive and flexural properties of the FRC materials were evaluated with an orthogonal test design. Fiber content by weight has the largest effect. The method for casting hemp FRC has been optimised. Under the optimum conditions, compressive strength increased by 4 %, flexural strength increased by 9 %, flexural toughness increased by 144 %, and flexural toughness index increased by 214 %.