Synthesis, Properties And Mineralogy Of Important Inorganic Materials

Intended as a textbook for courses involving preparative solid-state chemistry, this book offers clear and detailed descriptions on how to prepare a selection of inorganic materials that exhibit important optical, magnetic and electrical properties, on a laboratory scale. The text covers a wide range of preparative methods and can be read as separate, independent chapters or as a unified coherent body of work. Discussions of various chemical systems reveal how the properties of a material can often be influenced by modifications to the preparative procedure, and vice versa. References to mineralogy are made throughout the book since knowledge of naturally occurring inorganic substances is helpful in devising many of the syntheses and in characterizing the product materials.

A set of questions at the end of each chapter helps to connect theory with practice, and an accompanying solutions manual is available to instructors. This book is also of appeal to postgraduate students, post-doctoral researchers and those working in industry requiring knowledge of solid-state synthesis.

Terence Warner was born and brought up in south-west England, a region renowned for its classical geology and unusual mineralization. He read chemistry at the University of York. After graduating, he was awarded a postgraduate diploma in mineral engineering, and a doctorate for his thesis on extractive metallurgy from the University of Leeds. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, and has held research posts at the Universities of Cambridge and Leeds, and at the Max-Planck-Institute for Solid State Research, Stuttgart. He is currently Associate Professor of Materials Chemistry at the University of Southern Denmark. tew@kbm.sdu.dk

Inside Front Cover: Periodic Table of the Elements.

Inside Back Cover: Divisions of Geological Time.

Foreword (Derek J. Fray).

Preface.

Acknowledgements.

1 Introduction.

2 Practical Equipment.

2.1 Containers.

2.2 Milling.

2.3 Fabrication of Ceramic Monoliths.

2.4 Furnaces.

2.5 Powder X-ray Diffractometry.

3 Artificial Cuprorivaite CaCuSi₄O₁₀ (Egyptian Blue) by a Salt-Flux Method.

4 Artificial Covellite CuS by a Solid–Vapour Reaction.

5 Turbostratic Boron Nitride t-BN by a Solid–Gas Reaction Using Ammonia as the Nitriding Reagent.

6 Rubidium Copper Iodide Chloride Rb₄Cu1₆I₇Cl₁₃ by a Solid-State Reaction.

7 Copper Titanium Zirconium Phosphate CuTiZr(PO₄)₃ by a Solid-State Reaction Using Ammonium Dihydrogenphosphate as the Phosphating Reagent.

8 Cobalt Ferrite CoFe₂O₄ by a Coprecipitation Method.

9 Lead Zirconate Titanate PbZr_0.52Ti_0.48O₃ by a Coprecipitation Method Followed by Calcination.

10 Yttrium Barium Cuprate YBa₂Cu₃O_7–δ (δ ~ 0) by a Solid-State Reaction Followed by Oxygen Intercalation.

11 Single Crystals of Ordered Zinc–Tin Phosphide ZnSnP₂ by a Solution-Growth Technique Using Molten Tin as the Solvent.

12 Artificial Kieftite CoSb₃ by an Antimony Self-Flux Method.

13 Artificial Violarite FeNi₂S₄ by a Hydrothermal Method Using DL-Penicillamine as the Sulfiding Reagent.

14 Artificial Willemite Zn_1.96Mn_0.04SiO₄ by a Hybrid Coprecipitation and Sol-Gel Method.

15 Artificial Scheelite CaWO₄ by a Microwave-Assisted Solid-State Metathetic Reaction.

16 Artificial Hackmanite Na₈[Al₆Si₆O₂₄]Cl_1.8S_0.1 by a Structure-Conversion Method with Annealing Under a Reducing Atmosphere.

17 Gold-Ruby Glass from a Potassium-Antimony-Borosilicate Melt with a Controlled Annealing.

Index.