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Thermochemical study of natural minerals of the apophyllite group: fluorapophyllite-(K) KCa4[Si8O20]F . 8H2O (Maharashtra, India) (I) and hydroxylapophyllite-(K) KCa4[Si8O20]OH . 8H2O (Norilsk, Russia) (II) were performed on a high-temperature heat-flux microcalorimeter Tian–Calvet “Setaram” (France) using the melt solution calorimetry method. The first data on the enthalpies of formation from the elements for the minerals studied are obtained: -13 205±13 kJ/mol (I) and -13 054±20 kJ/mol (II). The values of their standard entropies and Gibbs energies of formation are estimated.

A thermochemical study of six natural sodium and sodium-calcium amphiboles was carried out using the high-temperature melt solution calorimetry on a Tian-Calvet microcalorimeter. The enthalpies of formation from the elements have been obtained for arfvedsonites: K0.5(Na1.5Ca0.5)(Mg4.0Fe0.93+Al0.1)[Si8.0O22](OH)2 (Inaglinsky Massif, Central Aldan, Russia) (-11626.6 ± 8.9 kJ/mol), (Na0.5K0.1)(Na1.6Ca0.4)(Mg3.6Fe0.42+Fe0.83+Al0.2)[Si8.0O22](OH)2 (Khibiny Massif, Kola Peninsula, Russia) (-11520.8 ± 14.6 kJ/mol) and (Na0.7K0.3)Na2.0(Fe4.02+Fe0.63+Mn0.1Ti0.1Al0.2)[Si8.0O22](OH)2 (Katuginskoe deposit, Transbaikalia, Russia) (-11384.7 ± 17.1 kJ/mol); for riebeckites: Na2.0(Mg2.5Fe0.52+Fe1.53+Al0.5)Si8O22(OH)2 (Kumula deposit, Central Kazakhstan) (-10791.0 ± 10.1 kJ/mol) and Na2.0(Mg0.9Fe2.12+Fe1.93+Al0.1)[Si8O22](OH)2 (Krivoy Rog, Ukraine) (-10260.8 ± 10.9 kJ/mol) and richterite (Na0.7K0.3)(Ca1.2Na0.8)(Mg4.6Fe0.42+)[Si7.8Al0.2O22](OH)2 (Kovdorsky Massif, Kola Peninsula, Russia) (-12154.2 ± 9.7 kJ/mol). The values of the standard entropies, enthalpies, and Gibbs energies of formation are estimated for the end members of isomorphic series: arfvedsonite – magnesioarfvedsonite, riebeckite – magnesioriebeckite and richterite – ferrochichthite.