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Thermodynamics of Fe oxides: Part II. Enthalpies of formation and relative stability of goethite (-FeOOH), lepidocrocite (-FeOOH), and maghemite (-Fe₂O₃)

¹ Thermochemistry Facility and Department of Geology, University of California at Davis, Davis, California 95616, U.S.A.
² Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Institut fur Geologie, Mineralogie und Geophysik, 44780 Bochum, Germany

The enthalpy of formation from the elements at 298.15 K (H⁰_f) of lepidocrocite (-FeOOH) and maghemite (-Fe₂O₃) has been measured by acid-solution calorimetry as –549.4 ± 1.4 and –808.1 ± 2.0 kJ/mol, respectively. The H_f⁰ of goethite (-FeOOH) was measured by high-temperature transposed temperature drop and acid-solution calorimetry as –559.5 ± 1.1 and –560.7 ± 1.2 kJ/mol, respectively.

Mathematical programming analysis (MAP) was used to generate an internally consistent data set for goethite and hematite, using the thermodynamic data presented in this study for goethite, and additional thermodynamic data for hematite and synthesis experiments of Baneyeva and Bendeliani (1973) (BB) and Voigt and Will (1981) (VW). Using BB brackets, the thermodynamic values for goethite were refined to H_f⁰ = –561.9 kJ/mol and entropy at standard pressure and temperature (S⁰) = 59.2 J/K·mol; using VW brackets, we arrived at H_f⁰ = –561.4 kJ/mol and S⁰ = 59.5 J/(K·mol). However, MAP failed to include the magnetic transition in goethite, and the derived data should be used with caution.

Combined with the entropies for the studied phases, the Gibbs free energies of formation from the elements at 298.15 K are –489.8 ± 1.2, –480.1 ± 1.4, and –727.9 ± 2.0 kJ/mol, for goethite, lepidocrocite, and maghemite, respectively. Only hematite (-Fe₂O₃) and goethite have a stability field in the Fe₂O₃-H₂O system at low to moderate pressures; maghemite and lepidocrocite are meta-stable at all pressures and temperatures. Goethite is 1.0 ± 1.4 kJ/mol metastable in G with respect to hematite and liquid water, and 2.0 ± 1.4 kJ/mol metastable with respect to hematite and water vapor at 298 K and 50% relative humidity.

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