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Nuclear magnetic resonance of silica polymorphs

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The chemical bonding in silica polymorphs and silicates is being studied by both experimental and theoretical methods1. Spinning at the octahedral (magic) angle yields sharp peaks in the NMR patterns for 29Si (ref. 2) and 27Al (ref. 3). We report magic angle spinning (MAS) spectra for seven polymorphs of silica and interpret the chemical shifts empirically in terms of interatomic distances and angles determined by X-ray diffraction. The conclusions provide a partial basis for quantitative interpretation of spectra for framework aluminosilicates, especially zeolite molecular sieves; additional effects from aluminium substitution and non-framework atoms4 will need to be evaluated.

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