Ms. Augsburger et Jc. Pedregosa, VIBRATIONAL INVESTIGATION OF ISOLATED MOLYBDATE AND TUNGSTATE IONS WITH LARGE CATIONS IN CONDENSED LATTICES, Journal of physics and chemistry of solids, 56(8), 1995, pp. 1081-1084
A new assignment is proposed for the internal vibrations of the MoO42-
and WO42- ions in condensed lattices. Infrared and Raman-laser spectr
a from alpha-Th(MoO4)(2) and alpha-Th(WO4)(2) were analysed. The occur
rence of two types of polyhedra and Th(IV) cations does not result in
couplings, allowing a more reliable assignment of the internal modes o
f the tetrahedra.