- journal_title：American Mineralogist
- Contributor：F.A. Bromiley ; T. Boffa Ballaran ; F. Langenhorst ; F. Seifert
- Publisher：Mineralogical Society of America
- Date：2007-
- Format：text/html
- Language：en
- Identifier：10.2138/am.2007.2315
- journal_abbrev：American Mineralogist
- issn：0003-004X
- volume：92
- issue：5-6
- firstpage：829
- section：Articles
The effects of cation substitution and ordering in the otavite (CdCO3)–magnesite (MgCO3) solid solution have been investigated on samples synthesized at 1 GPa in the temperature range 500–800 °C for run durations up to 120 h. A complete, disordered solid solution, with R3̅c symmetry, was obtained at 800 °C, whereas Mg and Cd show partial ordering within the cadmium dolomite stability field, with R3̅ symmetry, at intermediate compositions in the temperature range 500–650 °C. Rietveld refinements for X-ray diffraction data show that variation of the a-axis is linear as a function of composition, independent of the degree of order, whereas the c-axis shows a positive deviation from linearity as a function of composition, decreasing with increasing degree of order. Octahedral bond distances of the 800 °C series vary linearly with composition. Site occupancies were used to determine the long-range order parameter, Q, for samples with R3̅ symmetry. Q4 varies linearly as a function of temperature, suggesting a tricritical phase transition with a critical transition temperature Tc of 702(10) °C. EDX-TEM compositional microanalyses of samples within two-phase regions are in good agreement with Rietveld refinements, and allow better constraint of phase boundaries.