Infra Red Spectroscopy of the Regulated Asbestos Amphiboles

Vibrational spectroscopies (Fourier Transform Infra Red, FTIR, and Raman) are exceptionally valuable tools for the identification and crystal-chemical study of fibrous minerals, and asbestos amphiboles in particular. Raman spectroscopy has been widely applied in toxicological studies and thus a larg...

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Published in:Minerals (Basel) 2018-09, Vol.8 (9), p.413
Main Authors: Ventura, Giancarlo Della, Vigliaturo, Ruggero, Gieré, Reto, Pollastri, Simone, Gualtieri, Alessandro F, Iezzi, Gianluca
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Amosite
Amphiboles
Analytical methods
Asbestos
Cancer
Crocidolite
Crystals
Data
FEG-FESEM
Fourier transforms
FTIR spectroscopy
Identification
Infrared spectroscopy
Lattice vibration
Mercury cadmium telluride
Microscopy
Minerals
Organic chemistry
Organizations
Raman spectroscopy
regulated asbestos amphiboles
SAED patterns
Scanning electron microscopy
Sensors
Spectroscopy
Studies
TEM
Toxicity testing
Tremolite
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Summary:Vibrational spectroscopies (Fourier Transform Infra Red, FTIR, and Raman) are exceptionally valuable tools for the identification and crystal-chemical study of fibrous minerals, and asbestos amphiboles in particular. Raman spectroscopy has been widely applied in toxicological studies and thus a large corpus of reference data on regulated species is found in the literature. However, FTIR spectroscopy has been mostly used in crystal-chemical studies and very few data are found on asbestos amphiboles. This paper is intended to fill this gap. We report new FTIR data collected on a suite of well-characterized samples of the five regulated amphibole species: anthophyllite, amosite, and crocidolite, provided by the Union for International Cancer Control (UICC) Organization, and tremolite and actinolite, from two well-known occurrences. The data from these reference samples have been augmented by results from additional specimens to clarify some aspects of their spectroscopic features. We show that the FTIR spectra in both the OH-stretching region and in the lattice modes region can be effective for rapid identification of the asbestos type.
ISSN:2075-163X
2075-163X
DOI:10.3390/min8090413