The synthesis of an analogue of the organic mineral evenkite included preparation of a mixture of ten individual molecular
homologues of normal paraffin C
n
H
2n + 2 (
n = 19–28), melting of this mixture, and subsequent slow cooling under controlled conditions. The symmetrical distribution
of these homologues by the number of carbon atoms in the molecule (dominant homologue
n = 23) and the X-ray pattern of synthesized evenkite—a ten-component solid solution of
n-paraffins—correspond to the characteristics of natural evenkite.
Original Russian Text © N.V. Platonova, E.N. Kotel’nikova, 2006, published in Zapiski Rossiiskogo Mineralogicheskogo Obshchestva,
2006, No. 4, pp. 87–91.