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Using x-ray diffraction, electrothermal atomization atomic absorption spectroscopy, and scanning electron microscopy with an x-ray microanalysis, we have studied the phase decomposition of biogenic and synthetic Mg-containing apatite at 900°C with formation of β-tricalcium-magnesium phosphate (β-TCMP). Employing simplified model representations, we obtained a relation that couples the initial Mg concentration with the degree of transformation of apatite into β-TCMP. It is shown that for the β-TCMP contents measured in bioapatite samples and on replacement of calcium by magnesium to about 8% in this phase the calculated range of Mg concentrations coincides with that available in literature sources (0.2–0.6 wt. %). A comparative investigation of the products of decomposition of biogenic and synthetic apatite by the methods of analysis of the composition and structure has established that the formation of β-TCMP is limited by both the insufficient concentration of magnesium and the small sizes of the crystals. The results of the investigations carried out together with the experimental data known from the literature are indicative of the nonuniform distribution of magnesium in the bulk of crystals of biogenic and synthetic apatite, with its predominant localization at the surface sites of the lattice.
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Translated from Zhurnal Prikladnoi Spektroskopii, Vol. 72, No. 6, pp. 821–826, November–December, 2005.
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Danil’chenko, S.N., Kulik, A.N., Bugai, A.N. et al. Determination of the content and localization of magnesium in bioapatite of bone. J Appl Spectrosc 72, 899–905 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10812-006-0023-2
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