Analysis Of Crystal Structure Of Feso4

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Paragraph 1 The lattice arrangement of crystal structure FeSo4, mainly its alpha-FeSO4 and beta-FeSO4 counterparts will be thoroughly discussed and elaborated in this paragraph. At a low temperature of 294k, the FeSO4 crystal structure exists as alpha-FeSo4 or commonly known as the alpha-phase can be observed to exhibit a tetrahedral arrangement. First order transition is defined when the unique crystal quartz of FeSo4 changes to an octahedral structure during high pressures and temperatures of 980K. During this phase of transition, the alpha-FeSO4 transforms and evolves to its counterpart beta-FeSO4. When temperature is increased during this phase, volume increases as well. Subsequently, this causes an increase of disorganisation and randomness …show more content…

Mathematically, the volume and the cell parameter is linearly co-related to the temperature. The thermal expansion coefficient can be interpreted from the data sheet which holds the value of alpha (K^-1) = 2.924 x 10^-5 +2.920 x 10^-10 (T-300)^2. One factor that contributes to thermal expansion is the angles variations caused by 2 Fe-O-P bridging angles and tilt angles within the bonds. This behaviour can be explained with the content as discussed earlier, which is, an increase in thermal energy, or temperature, will inevitably lead to an increasing disorder of the lattice arrangement. With reference to other crystal structures or alpha-quartz materials, alphaFeSO4 has the greatest angular vibrations within its bonds. Whereas for the beta-FeSo4, it is completely different in way that it does not follow thermal expansion due to inherently different behaviour of the Fe-O-P bond angles and tilt angles in the beta-phase. During the transition from alpha-phase to beta-phase, tilt angle, decrease at transition temperature (980K). The overall tilt angle and be expressed as the average of sum of tilt angles. In summary, FeSO4 is noted to not reciprocate the behaviour of other crystal structures or alpha/beta-quartz. Paragraph

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