Abstract
The method of accommodation of solid solution along the OH-Cl binary in calcium phosphate apatites is not fully understood; because of steric constraints in mixtures of OH and Cl anions in the apatite [0, 0, z] anion column, the positions of OH and Cl anions in the pure hydroxylapatite and chlorapatite end-members cannot coexist in the binary anion column. We have undertaken high-precision single-crystal X-ray structure studies of eight synthetic samples along the OH-Cl apatite binary (R1 ≈ 0.0159). We found that for all samples solid solution is attainable in space group P63/m, but the particular method of solid solution depends on composition. For samples with Cl > OH, three column anion sites (two for Cl, one for OH) provide allowable bond distances with the Ca2 atoms and allow a sequence of column anions that provides sufficient anion-anion distances and also effects reversal of the sense of ordering of the column anions relative to the mirror planes at z = ¼ and ¾. In a sample with OH > Cl, three sites exist in the anion column that also provide allowable bond distances to the triangle of Ca2 atoms or its disordered Ca2' equivalent, and afford a sequence of atoms that permits reversal of the anion column and maintenance of P63/m symmetry. One of those sites is occupied by OH and provides acceptable Ca2-OH distances, and another accommodates Cl with ideal Ca2-Cl distances. A third column anion site is unique among the calcium phosphate apatites. That site, termed the ClOH site, accommodates both OH and Cl. The site has an ideal bond distance for OH to the Ca2 atoms in the Ca2 triangle and also has an ideal bond distance for a Cl occupant to disordered Ca2' atoms; thus, because of the disordering of the Ca2-Ca2' atoms, a single site can accommodate either anion with ideal, but disparate, bond distances to Ca. Finally, in OH-Cl apatites with OH ≈ Cl, also crystallizing in space group P63/m, four anion positions are occupied in the anion column, including the ClOH site that allows occupancy by both OH and Cl. In addition to that site and distinct OH and Cl sites, OH is found to occupy the site within the mirror plane at (0,0,¼), the site occupied by F in F-bearing apatite. Occupancy of that site is essential to reversing the sense of ordering of the anion column relative to the mirror planes and preserving P63/m symmetry. Thus, the methods of effecting solid solution along the OH-Cl are composition dependent and complex.
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Acknowledgments
Support for this work was provided by the National Science Foundation through grant EAR-1249459 to J.M.H. and EAR-0952298 to J.R. The manuscript was improved by reviews by Francis McCubbin, an anonymous reviewer, and the American Mineralogist Technical Editor, for which we are very appreciative. Aaron Celestian is gratefully acknowledged for the editorial handling of the manuscript.
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