High-pressure synchrotron x-ray diffraction and Raman spectroscopic study of plumbogummite

PbAl_3(PO_4)_2(OH,H_2O)_6,an important environmental mineral,is in-situ studied by synchrotron x-ray diffraction(XRD)and Raman scattering combined with diamond anvil cells(DACs)at pressures up to～11.0 GPa and room temperature.The XRD results indicate that plumbogummite does not undergo a phase transition between 0 GPa and 10.9 GPa.Moreover,the c axis is more compressible than the a axis,revealing its anisotropic behavior.The pressure-volume data are fitted to the third-order Birch-Murnaghan equation of state to yield the plumbogummite bulk modulus K_0 of 68(1)GPa and K'_0 of 6.1.The [PO_4]~(3-)and [HPO_4]~(2-) Raman vibrational modes exhibit scale nearly linearly as a function of pressure.The [PO4]~(3-) stretching modes are generally more sensitive to pressure than the bending modes.The Grüneisen parameters range from -0.07 to 1.19,with an arithmetic mean of approximately 0.39.