De Wolff disorder

The De Wolff disorder model has been extended to the cation vacancy model for /-Mn02 and -Mn02 by Ruetschi [42]. In this model the occurrence of manganese cation vacancies and the non stoichiometry of electrochemical Mn02 have been taken into account. Furthermore, the vacancy model deals with the explanation of the different water contents of manganese dioxide. Ruetschi makes some simple assumptions ... 

A) A stacking disorder (De Wolff disorder intergrowth of ramsdellite- and pyrolusite- type units, as already described above). This kind of disorder can be quantified by two parameters ... 

B) The model of De Wolff disorder gives no explanation for the line broadening of reflections which are not affected by this type of lattice disorder. Chabre and Pannetier ascribed this effect to a micro twinning of the ramsdel-lite/rutile lattice on the planes [0 2 1] and [0 6 1], These faces are believed to be growth planes of EMD [45, 46],... 

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