title: [Raman spectrum study on turquoise].
abstract: The Raman spectrum has been employed to discuss the explanation of the structure of water and the vibration of [PO4(3-)] tetrahedron of the turquoise from Hubei and Anhui province. The Raman spectra are resulted mainly from vibrations of water, hydroxyl units and [PO4(3-)] tetrahedron of turquoise. The 3 510-3 440 cm(-1) bands with the main Raman spectra peak at 3 470 cm(-1) were assigned to the upsilon(OH) stretching vibrations and the 3 290-3 070 cm(-1) bands assigned to the upsilon(H2O) stretching vibrations. The bands observed at 1 200-1 030 cm(-1) with the strong peak at 1 039 cm(-1) were assigned to upsilon3 (PO4) antisymmetric stretching vibrations. And the Raman spectra peaks at 650-540 cm(-1) and 500-410 cm(-1) were attributed to the upsilon4 and upsilon2 bending vibrations of [PO4(3-)] tetrahedron, respectively. The spectra of the turquoise from different localities are basically similar and subtly different.
authors.affiliation: Gemology Institute, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan 430074, China. chenquanli_0302@163.com
authors.forename: Quan-Li
authors.initials: QL
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.forename: Li-Jian
authors.initials: LJ
authors.lastname: Qi
authors.forename: Jing-Zhong
authors.initials: JZ
authors.lastname: Chen