Abstract

AbstractSingle crystals of the title compounds having optical quality and dimensions of several cm were grown from aqueous solutions. The elastic and thermoelastic constants were determined from ultrasonic resonance frequencies of thick plates. The true point symmetry of K2S2O6 and Rb2S2O6, which is screened by a hexagonal hypermorphy, could be clearly revealed to be trigonal (32) by the existence of the elastic constant c14. In the case of CaS2O6 · 4H2O and SrS2O6 · 4H2O the constant c14 of the specimens appeared too small to confirm the trigonal symmetry group required from electrooptic and non‐linear optic effects unambiguously.The isotypy of K2S2O2 and Rb2S2O6 as well as that of CaS2O6 · 4H2O and SrS2O6 · 4H2O is confirmed by their elastic behaviour. The mean elastic stiffness of dithionates is closely related to that of the corresponding sulphates. In the vicinity of the second‐order phase transition of K2S2O6 near 235 K weak anomalies of the temperature derivatives of the longitudinal elastic stiffnesses are observed.

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