“…1, top spectrum) exhibits a broad band in the 2600-3800 cm À1 region, two sharper bands of lower intensity in the 1600-1800 cm À1 region and two other bands in the 700-900 cm À1 region. These features are consistent with previously published values for synthetic goethite (Schwarzmann and Sparr, 1969;Parfitt et al, 1975;Rochester and Topham, 1979a,b;Busca et al, 1978;Verdonck et al, 1982;Morterra et al, 1984;Ishikawa et al, 1986;Williams and Guenther, 1996;Weckler and Lutz, 1998;Ruan et al, 2001Ruan et al, , 2002Krehula et al, 2002;Subbanna et al, 2002;Betancur et al, 2004). All bands undergo substantial changes with temperature, as it will be discussed further in Section 3.2.…”