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IN their recent communication concerning the application of infrared spectroscopy to the calcium sulphate–water system, Bensted and Prakash1 stated that they obtained no spectral differences between the α and β forms of the hemihydrate. I would like to report that I have found differences in the spectral range 1,200 to 1,000 cm−1 associated with the vibrations of the tetrahedral SO4 ion as shown in Table 1.
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BARTRAM, D. Infrared Absorption Spectra of α and β-Calcium Sulphate Hemihydrates. Nature 223, 494 (1969). https://doi.org/10.1038/223494a0
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