sulfate carbonate

{{short description|Class of chemical compounds}}

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The sulfate carbonates are a compound carbonates, or mixed anion compounds that contain sulfate and carbonate ions. Sulfate carbonate minerals are in the 7.DG and 5.BF Nickel-Strunz groupings.{{cite web |title=Susannite: Mineral information, data and localities. |url=https://www.mindat.org/min-3833.html |website=www.mindat.org |access-date=10 May 2020}}

They may be formed by crystallization from a water solution, or by melting a carbonate and sulfate together.

In some structures carbonate and sulfate can substitute for each other. For example a range from 1.4 to 2.2 Na2SO4•Na2CO3 is stable as a solid solution.{{cite journal |last1=Green |first1=Stanley J. |last2=Frattali |first2=Francis J. |title=The System Sodium Carbonate-Sodium Sulfate-Sodium Hydroxide-Water at 100° |journal=Journal of the American Chemical Society |date=September 1946 |volume=68 |issue=9 |pages=1789–1794 |doi=10.1021/ja01213a033}} Silvialite can substitute about half its sulfate with carbonate{{Cite journal|last1=Teertstra|first1=D. K.|last2=Schindler|first2=M.|last3=Sherriff|first3=B. L.|last4=Hawthorne|first4=F. C.|date=June 1999|title=Silvialite, a new sulfate-dominant member of the scapolite group with an Al-Si composition near the 14/ m – P 4 2 / n phase transition|url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/S0026461X00009142/type/journal_article|journal=Mineralogical Magazine|language=en|volume=63|issue=3|pages=321–329|doi=10.1180/002646199548547|bibcode=1999MinM...63..321T|s2cid=129588463|issn=0026-461X|url-access=subscription}} and the high temperature hexagonal form of sodium sulfate (I) Na2SO4 can substitute unlimited proportions of carbonate instead of sulfate.{{Cite journal|last1=Eysel|first1=W.|last2=Höfer|first2=H. H.|last3=Keester|first3=K. L.|last4=Hahn|first4=Th.|date=1985-02-01|title=Crystal chemistry and structure of Na 2 SO 4 (I) and its solid solutions|url=http://scripts.iucr.org/cgi-bin/paper?S0108768185001501|journal=Acta Crystallographica Section B: Structural Science|volume=41|issue=1|pages=5–11|doi=10.1107/S0108768185001501|bibcode=1985AcCrB..41....5E |issn=0108-7681|url-access=subscription}}

Minerals

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Brianyoungite

|Zn12(CO3)3(SO4)(OH)16

|Monoclinic

|P21/m

|a = 15.724 b = 6.256 c = 5.427 β = 90°

|533.8

|4.09

|Biaxial nα = 1.635 nβ = 1.650

|{{Cite web|title=Brianyoungite: Mineral information, data and localities.|url=https://www.mindat.org/min-772.html|access-date=2020-06-09|website=www.mindat.org}}

Burkeite

|Na6(CO3)(SO4)2

|orthorhombic

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|a = 7.05 b = 9.21 c = 5.16

|335.04

|2.57

|Biaxial (-) nα = 1.448 nβ = 1.489 nγ = 1.493

2V: measured: 34° , calculated: 32°

Max birefringence: δ = 0.045

|{{Cite web|title=Burkeite: Mineral information, data and localities.|url=https://www.mindat.org/min-805.html|access-date=2020-06-09|website=www.mindat.org}}

Caledonite

|Pb5Cu2(SO4)3(CO3)(OH)6

|Orthorhombic

|Pmn21

|a = 20.089 b = 7.146 c = 6.56

|941.7

|5.77

|Biaxial (-) nα = 1.818(3) nβ = 1.866(3) nγ = 1.909(3)

2V: measured: 85° , calculated: 84°

Max birefringence: δ = 0.091

bluish green

|{{Cite web|title=Caledonite: Mineral information, data and localities.|url=https://www.mindat.org/min-865.html|access-date=2020-06-09|website=www.mindat.org}}

Carraraite

|Ca3(SO4)[Ge(OH)6](CO3) · 12H2O

|hexagonal

|P63/m?

|a = 11.056 c = 10.629

|1125.17

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|Uniaxial (+) nω = 1.479(1) nε = 1.509(1)

Max birefringence: δ = 0.030

|{{Cite web|title=Carraraite: Mineral information, data and localities.|url=https://www.mindat.org/min-7038.html|access-date=2020-06-09|website=www.mindat.org}}

Carbonatecyanotrichite

|Cu4Al2(CO3,SO4)(OH)12 · 2H2O

|Orthorhombic

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|Biaxial (+) nα = 1.616 nβ = 1.630 nγ = 1.677

2V: measured: 55° to 60°, calculated: 60°

Max birefringence: δ = 0.061

pale blue

|{{Cite web|title=Carbonatecyanotrichite: Mineral information, data and localities.|url=https://www.mindat.org/min-894.html|access-date=2020-06-09|website=www.mindat.org}}

Claraite

|(Cu,Zn)15(AsO4)2(CO3)4(SO4)(OH)14·7H2O

|triclinic

|P{{overbar|1}}

|a = 10.3343 b = 12.8212 c = 14.7889 α = 113.196°, β = 90.811°, γ = 89.818°

|1800.9

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|{{Cite journal|last1=Biagioni|first1=Cristian|last2=Orlandi|first2=Paolo|date=2017-12-01|title=Claraite, (Cu,Zn)15(AsO4)2(CO3)4(SO4)(OH)14·7H2O: redefinition and crystal structure|url=http://www.schweizerbart.de/papers/ejm/detail/29/88530/Claraite_Cu_Zn_15_AsO4_2_CO3_4_SO4_OH_14_7H2O_rede?af=crossref|journal=European Journal of Mineralogy|language=en|volume=29|issue=6|pages=1031–1044|doi=10.1127/ejm/2017/0029-2669|bibcode=2017EJMin..29.1031B|hdl=11568/895507|issn=0935-1221|hdl-access=free}}

Ferrotychite

|Na6(Fe,Mn,Mg)2(CO3)4(SO4)

|Isometric

|Fd3

|a = 13.962

|2,721.7

|2.79

|Isotropic n = 1.550

|{{Cite web|title=Ferrotychite: Mineral information, data and localities.|url=https://www.mindat.org/min-1533.html|access-date=2020-06-09|website=www.mindat.org}}

Hanksite

|Na22K(SO4)9(CO3)2Cl

|hexagonal

|P 63/m

|a = 10.4896 c = 21.2415

|2024.1

|2.562

|Uniaxial (-) nω = 1.481 nε = 1.461

Max birefringence: δ = 0.020

|{{Cite journal|last1=Callegari|first1=Athos Maria|last2=Boiocchi|first2=Massimo|last3=Zema|first3=Michele|last4=Tarantino|first4=Serena Chiara|date=2018-08-01|title=The crystal structure of hanksite, Na 22 K(CO 3 ) 2 (SO 4 ) 9 Cl, refined from high-resolution X-ray diffraction data|journal=Neues Jahrbuch für Mineralogie - Abhandlungen |language=en|volume=195|issue=2|pages=115–122|doi=10.1127/njma/2018/0113|s2cid=134964473|issn=0077-7757}}

Hauckite

|Fe3+3(Mg,Mn2+)24Zn18(SO4)4(CO3)2(OH)81

|hexagonal

|P6/mmm

|a = 9.17 c = 30.21

|2200

|3.02

|Uniaxial (+) nω = 1.630 nε = 1.638

Max birefringence: δ = 0.008

|{{Cite web|title=Hauckite: Mineral information, data and localities.|url=https://www.mindat.org/min-1830.html|access-date=2020-06-09|website=www.mindat.org}}

Jouravskite

|Ca3Mn4+(SO4)(CO3)(OH)6 · 12H2O

|Hexagonal

|P63

|a = 11.0713 c = 10.6265 Z=3

|1128.02

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|Uniaxial (-) nω = 1.556 nε = 1.540

Max birefringence: δ = 0.016

|{{Cite web|title=Jouravskite: Mineral information, data and localities.|url=https://www.mindat.org/min-2118.html|access-date=2020-06-09|website=www.mindat.org}}

Korkinoite

|Ca4(SO4)2(CO3)2 · 9H2O

|Orthorhombic

|Pmmm

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|Biaxial (+)

|{{Cite web|title=Korkinoite: Mineral information, data and localities.|url=https://www.mindat.org/min-32154.html|access-date=2020-06-09|website=www.mindat.org}}

Latiumite

|(Ca,K)4(Si,Al)5O11(SO4,CO3)

|Monoclinic

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|a = 12.06 Å, b = 5.08 Å, c = 10.81 Å

β = 106°

|636.6

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|Biaxial (+/-) nα = 1.600 - 1.603 nβ = 1.606 - 1.609 nγ = 1.614 - 1.615

2V: measured: 83° to 90°, calculated: 84° to 88°

Max Birefringence: δ = 0.014

|{{Cite web|title=Latiumite: Mineral information, data and localities.|url=https://www.mindat.org/min-2336.html|access-date=2020-06-10|website=www.mindat.org}}

Leadhillite

|Pb4(SO4)(CO3)2(OH)2

|Monoclinic

|P21/b

|a = 9.11 b = 20.82 c = 11.59

β = 90.46°

|2198

|6.55

|Biaxial (-) nα = 1.870 nβ = 2.009 nγ = 2.010

2V: 10°

Max birefringence: δ = 0.140

|{{Cite web|title=Leadhillite: Mineral information, data and localities.|url=https://www.mindat.org/min-2361.html|access-date=2020-06-09|website=www.mindat.org}}

Macphersonite

|Pb4(SO4)(CO3)2(OH)2

|Orthorhombic

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|a = 10.38 b = 23.05 c = 9.242

|2211.8

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|Biaxial (-) nα = 1.870 nβ = 2.000 nγ = 2.010

2V: measured: 35° calculated: 28°

Max birefringence: δ = 0.140

|{{Cite web|title=Macphersonite: Mineral information, data and localities.|url=https://www.mindat.org/min-2513.html|access-date=2020-06-09|website=www.mindat.org}}

Manganotychite

|Na6(Mn,Fe,Mg)2(SO4)(CO3)4

|Isometric

|Fd3

|a = 13.9951

|2,741.12

|2.7

|n = 1.544 pink

|{{Cite web|title=Manganotychite: Mineral information, data and localities.|url=https://www.mindat.org/min-2529.html|website=www.mindat.org|access-date=2020-05-18}}

Mineevite-Y

|Na25BaY2(SO4)11(HCO3)4(CO3)2F2Cl{{cite book |last1=Jones |first1=G. C. |last2=Jackson |first2=B. |title=Infrared Transmission Spectra of Carbonate Minerals |date=2012 |publisher=Springer Science & Business Media |isbn=978-94-011-2120-0 |page=18 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SCUrBgAAQBAJ&pg=PT18 |language=en}}

|Hexagonal

|P63/m

|a = 8.811 c = 37.03 Z=2

|2489.6

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|Uniaxial (-) nω = 1.536 nε = 1.510

Max birefringence: δ = 0.026

pale green

|{{Cite web|title=Mineevite-(Y): Mineral information, data and localities.|url=https://www.mindat.org/min-2718.html|access-date=2020-06-09|website=www.mindat.org}}

Nakauriite

|Cu8(SO4)4(CO3)(OH)6•48H2O

|orthorhombic

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|a = 14.58 b = 11.47 c = 16.22

|2,712.5

|2.39

|blue

Biaxial (-) nα = 1.585 nβ = 1.604 nγ = 1.612

2V: measured: 65° , calculated: 64°

Max birefringence: δ = 0.027

|{{Cite web|title=Nakauriite: Mineral information, data and localities.|url=https://www.mindat.org/min-2948.html|access-date=2020-06-09|website=www.mindat.org}}

Nasledovite

|PbMn3Al4(CO3)4(SO4)O5 · 5H2O

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|3.069

|Biaxial

|{{Cite web|title=Nasledovite: Mineral information, data and localities.|url=https://www.mindat.org/min-2843.html|access-date=2020-06-09|website=www.mindat.org}}

Paraotwayite

|Ni(OH)2-x(SO4,CO3)0.5x

|monoclinic

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|a = 7.89 b = 2.96 c = 13.63 β = 91.1°

|318

|3.30

|Biaxial nα = 1.655 nγ = 1.705

Max birefringence: δ = 0.050

emerald-green

|{{Cite web|title=Paraotwayite: Mineral information, data and localities.|url=https://www.mindat.org/min-3104.html|access-date=2020-06-09|website=www.mindat.org}}

Philolithite

|Pb12Mn2+(Mg,Mn2+)2(Mn2+,Mg)4(CO3)4(SO4)O6(OH)12Cl4

|Tetragonal

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|a = 12.627 c = 12.595

|2008.2

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|Biaxial (+) nα = 1.920 nβ = 1.940 nγ = 1.950

Max birefringence: δ = 0.030

apple green

|{{Cite web|title=Philolithite: Mineral information, data and localities.|url=https://www.mindat.org/min-7230.html|access-date=2020-06-09|website=www.mindat.org}}

Putnisite

|SrCa4Cr83+(CO3)8(SO4)(OH)16·25 H2O

|Orthorhombic

|Pnma

|a = 15.351 b = 20.421 c = 18.270 Z = 4

|5727.3

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|Biaxial(-); α = 1.552 nβ = 1.583 nγ = 1.599

Max birefringence: δ =0.047

violet

|{{Cite web|title=Mineralienatlas - Fossilienatlas|url=https://www.mineralienatlas.de/lexikon/index.php/MineralData?lang=de&mineral=Putnisite|access-date=2020-06-11|website=www.mineralienatlas.de|language=de}}

rowspan="2" |Pyroaurite

| rowspan="2" |Mg6Fe2(SO4,CO3)(OH)16·4H2O

|Trigonal

|R3_m

|a = 3.1094 c = 23.4117

|196.03

|2.1

|Uniaxial (-) nω = 1.564 nε = 1.543

Max birefringence: δ = 0.021

|{{Cite web|title=Pyroaurite: Mineral information, data and localities.|url=https://www.mindat.org/min-3330.html|access-date=2020-06-10|website=www.mindat.org}}

Hexagonal

|P63/mmc

|a = 3.113 c = 15.61

|131.01

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Rapidcreekite

|Ca2(SO4)(CO3)•4H2O

|orthorhombic

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|a = 15.49 b = 19.18 c = 6.15

|1827.15

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|Biaxial (+) nα = 1.516 nβ = 1.518 nγ = 1.531

2V: measured: 45° , calculated: 44°

Max birefringence: δ = 0.015

|{{Cite web|title=Rapidcreekite: Mineral information, data and localities.|url=https://www.mindat.org/min-3366.html|access-date=2020-06-09|website=www.mindat.org}}

Schröckingerite

|NaCa3(UO2)(SO4)(CO3)3F•10(H2O)

|triclinic

|P{{overbar|1}}

|a = 9.634 b = 9.635 c = 14.391

α = 91.41(1)°, β = 92.33(1)°, γ = 120.26(1)°

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|Biaxial (-) nα = 1.495 nβ = 1.543 nγ = 1.544

Max birefringence: δ = 0.049

|{{Cite web|title=Schröckingerite: Mineral information, data and localities.|url=https://www.mindat.org/min-3584.html|access-date=2020-06-09|website=www.mindat.org}}

Susannite

|Pb4(SO4)(CO3)2(OH)2

|trigonal

|P3

|a = 9.07 Å, c = 11.57 Å Z=3

|824.62

|6.52

|clear

|{{Cite web|title=Susannite: Mineral information, data and localities.|url=https://www.mindat.org/min-3833.html|website=www.mindat.org|access-date=2020-05-18}}

Tatarskite

|Ca6Mg2(SO4)2(CO3)2(OH)4Cl4•7H2O{{cite web |title=Tatarskite: Mineral information, data and localities. |url=https://www.mindat.org/min-3894.html |website=www.mindat.org |access-date=10 May 2020}}

|Orthorhombic

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|2.341

|nα = 1.567(2) nβ = 1.654(2) nγ = 1.722 biaxial(-) 2V=83

|{{Cite web|title=Tatarskite: Mineral information, data and localities.|url=https://www.mindat.org/min-3894.html|website=www.mindat.org|access-date=2020-05-18}}

Thaumasite

|Ca3(SO4)[Si(OH)6](CO3) · 12H2O

|hexagonal

|P63

|a = 11.030 c = 10.396

|1095.3

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|Uniaxial (-) nω = 1.507 nε = 1.468

Max birefringence: δ = 0.039

|{{Cite web|title=Thaumasite: Mineral information, data and localities.|url=https://www.mindat.org/min-3933.html|access-date=2020-06-09|website=www.mindat.org}}

Tychite

|Na6Mg2(SO4)(CO3)4

|Isometric

|Fd3

|a = 13.9038 Z=8

|2687.82

|2.456

|isotropic

|{{Cite web|title=Tychite: Mineral information, data and localities.|url=https://www.mindat.org/min-4068.html|access-date=2020-06-09|website=www.mindat.org}}

Alloriite

|Na19K6Ca5[Al22Si26O96](SO4)5Cl(CO3)x(H2O)

|trigonal

|P31c

|a = 12.892 c = 21.340

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|{{Cite journal|last=Kaneva|first=Ekaterina|date=2015-09-01|title=Investigation of the sulfur speciation in cancrinite group minerals using Single crystal X-ray diffraction analysis [in Russian]|url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/284486224}}

Potassium-Schröckingerite

|KCa3(UO2)(CO3)3(SO4)F•10H2O

|triclinic

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|Yellow

|{{Cite web|title=UM1997-27-CO:CaHKSU: Mineral information, data and localities.|url=https://www.mindat.org/min-7652.html|access-date=2020-06-09|website=www.mindat.org}}

Artificial

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|Na4CO3SO4

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|Hexagonal

|P{{overbar|3}}m1

|a=5.2284 c=6.8808 Z=1

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|2.538

|uniaxial (-) n=~1.45

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|{{Cite web|last1=Swanson|first1=Howard E.|last2=McMurdie|first2=Howard F.|last3=Morris|first3=Marlene C.|last4=Evans|first4=Eloise H.|last5=Paretzkin|first5=Boris|date=February 1974|title=Standard X-ray Diffraction Powder Patterns: Section 11. Data for 70 Substances|url=https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc13203/m1/57/|access-date=2020-06-09|website=UNT Digital Library|page=51|language=en}}{{cite journal|last1=Wang|first1=Jinsheng|last2=Wu|first2=Yinghai|last3=Anthony|first3=Edward J.|date=July 2007|title=Reactions of solid CaSO4 and Na2CO3 and formation of sodium carbonate sulfate double salts|journal=Thermochimica Acta|volume=459|issue=1–2|pages=121–124|doi=10.1016/j.tca.2007.04.014}}

|Mg4(OH)2(CO3)2SO4·6H2O

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|{{Cite journal|last=Livingstone|first=A.|date=September 1987|title=A basic magnesium carbonate, a possible dimorph of artinite, from Unst, Shetland|url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/S0026461X00021794/type/journal_article|journal=Mineralogical Magazine|language=en|volume=51|issue=361|pages=459–462|doi=10.1180/minmag.1987.051.361.13|bibcode=1987MinM...51..459L|s2cid=10869061 |issn=0026-461X|url-access=subscription}}

LDH-SO4-CO3

|Mg6Al2SO4CO3(OH)14·4H2O

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|P{{overbar|3}}m

|a=3.070 c=22.3

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|layered

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|{{Cite journal|last1=Wu|first1=Jiansong|last2=Yang|first2=Yifeng|date=October 2019|title=Synthesis and Structural Analysis of LDH-SO4-CO3 Whisker|journal=Journal of Wuhan University of Technology-Mater. Sci. Ed.|language=en|volume=34|issue=5|pages=1085–1088|doi=10.1007/s11595-019-2163-2|s2cid=203852725|issn=1000-2413}}

|Co6Al2SO4CO3(OH)14·4H2O

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|Cu6Al2SO4CO3(OH)14·4H2O

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colspan="12" |Complexes
Tetrammine carbonatocobalt(III) sulfate trihydrate

|[Co(NH3)4CO3]2SO4·3H2O

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|Monoclinic

|P21/c

|a=7.455 b=10.609 c=23.627 β =98.346 Z=4

|1849

|1.88

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|dark red

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|{{Cite journal|last1=Macikenas|first1=Dainius|last2=Hazell|first2=R. G.|last3=Christensen|first3=A. Nørlund|last4=Balashev|first4=Konstantin P.|last5=Songstad|first5=Jon|last6=Mo|first6=Frode|last7=Bartfai|first7=Tamas|last8=Langel|first8=Ülo|date=1995|title=X-Ray Crystallographic Study of Tetrammine-Carbonatocobalt(III) Sulfate Trihydrate, [Co(NH3)4CO3]2SO4.3H2O.|journal=Acta Chemica Scandinavica|language=en|volume=49|pages=636–639|doi=10.3891/acta.chem.scand.49-0636|issn=0904-213X|doi-access=free}}

μ-Carbonato-bis(pentaamminecobalt(III)) sulfate tetrahydrate

|[Co(NH3)5]2CO3SO4·4H2O

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|dark red

|49731-04-6

|{{Cite journal|last1=Kremer|first1=Eduardo|last2=Piriz Mac-Coll|first2=Carlos R.|date=October 1971|title=.mu.-Carbonato-bis(pentaamminecobalt(III)) salts|journal=Inorganic Chemistry|language=en|volume=10|issue=10|pages=2182–2186|doi=10.1021/ic50104a018|issn=0020-1669}}

μ-Carbonato-μ-dihydroxo-bis(triamminecobalt(III)) sulfate pentahydrate

|[(NH3)3Co(μ-OH)2(μ-CO3)Co(NH3)3]SO4 . 5H2O

|500.21

|Triclinic

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|a= 6.6914 b= 11.2847 c= 11.825, α = 92.766 β= 99.096 γ= 101.496

|861.1

|1.929

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|dark red

|75476-69-6

|{{Cite journal|last1=Churchill|first1=Melvyn Rowen.|last2=Lashewycz|first2=Romana A.|last3=Koshy|first3=Kanayuthu.|last4=Dasgupta|first4=Tara P.|date=February 1981|title=Synthesis, properties, and crystallographic characterization of a dinuclear .mu.-carbonato complex of cobalt(III): [(NH3)3Co(.mu.-OH)2(.mu.-CO3)Co(NH3)3]SO4.5H2O|journal=Inorganic Chemistry|language=en|volume=20|issue=2|pages=376–381|doi=10.1021/ic50216a012|issn=0020-1669}}

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