Hydrothermal spring systems may well have been present on early Mars and could have served as a habitat for primitive life. The integrated instrument suite of the Athena Rover has, as a component on the robotic arm, a Mossbauer spectrometer. In the context of future Mars exploration we present results of Mossbauer analysis of a suite of samples from an iron-rich thermal spring in the Chocolate ...

With an emphasis on assessment of reproducibility and precision of results, the technique of Mossbauer spectroscopy is applied to three groups of materials with increasing structural complexity: simple mineral standards, multivalent and multisite ferruginous micas, and multisite silicate glasses. In order to study the underlying accuracy of Mossbauer measurements of minerals, two mineral standa...

Mdssbauer parameters are reported for the phosphate minerals triplite, zwieselite, triploidite, and wolfeite. Analysis of the absorption data confirms the existence of non-equivalent ferrous ions. The broadening of the resonance peaks is rationalized on the basis of a microscopic disorder due to half-occupied fluorine sites in the fluoride minerals and to sets of closelv related metal sites in ...

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The well-known dependence on preparation conditions of the microstructural polymorphism in nc networks is often also reflected in their magnetic properties. This is particularly evident for non-metallic nc materials where superexchange coupling dominates. The latter is very sensitive to slight variations in bond lengths and angles. For example. this counterplay of local structural and magnetic ...

VIII VI IV Aenigmatite, Na4 (Fe2 +,Ti,Fe 3 +) 1 2 (SiFe 3 +) 12 0 40 , is a common constituent of sodium-rich alkaline igneous rocks and is classified as an open-branched single-chain silicate, whose structure is closely related to that of sapphirine. The first Mossbauer spectra of three valid aenigmatite specimens were recorded and the detailed crystal chemistry were obtained. In the Mossbauer...

Recent reports have suggested that the nuclear resonant absorption of a long-lived Mossbauer state e.g., (93m)Nb is mediated by an entangled photon pair (biphoton) rather than by a single photon. Multipolar nuclear excitation in crystals of a single isotope with a natural abundance of 100% spreads in a region containing billions of identical nuclei. As a consequence of the delocalisation, addit...

Slow (zero field)paramagnetic relaxation is reported for undiluted tetrahedral ferrous monomers for the first time. The Mossbauer spectra of Fe(2,9 di-CH3-phenanthroline)(NCS)2 and Fe(2,9 di-CH3 4,7 di-(j>-phenanthroline) (NCS)2 exhibit magnetic hyperfine splitting in the range 20 K to 1.6 K while the corresponding chlorides are rapidly relaxing paramagnets at all temperatures in zero field. Lo...