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Jun, 2010

Melting of iron-silicon alloy up to the core-mantle boundary pressure: implications to the thermal structure of the Earth's core

PHYSICS AND CHEMISTRY OF MINERALS
  • Hidetoshi Asanuma
  • ,
  • Eiji Ohtani
  • ,
  • Takeshi Sakai
  • ,
  • Hidenori Terasaki
  • ,
  • Seiji Kamada
  • ,
  • Tadashi Kondo
  • ,
  • Takumi Kikegawa

Volume
37
Number
6
First page
353
Last page
359
Language
English
Publishing type
Research paper (scientific journal)
DOI
10.1007/s00269-009-0338-7
Publisher
SPRINGER

The melting temperature of Fe-18 wt% Si alloy was determined up to 119 GPa based on a change of laser heating efficiency and the texture of the recovered samples in the laser-heated diamond anvil cell experiments. We have also investigated the subsolidus phase relations of Fe-18 wt% Si alloy by the in-situ X-ray diffraction method and confirmed that the bcc phase is stable at least up to 57 GPa and high temperature. The melting curve of the alloy was fitted by the Simon's equation, P(GPa)/a = (T (m)(K)/T (0)) (c) , with parameters, T (0) = 1,473 K, a = 3.5 +/- A 1.1 GPa, and c = 4.5 +/- A 0.4. The melting temperature of bcc Fe-18 wt% Si alloy is comparable with that of pure iron in the pressure range of this work. The melting temperature of Fe-18 wt% Si alloy is estimated to be 3,300-3,500 K at 135 GPa, and 4,000-4,200 K at around 330 GPa, which may provide the lower bound of the temperatures at the core-mantle boundary and the inner core-outer core boundary if the light element in the core is silicon.

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00269-009-0338-7
CiNii Articles
http://ci.nii.ac.jp/naid/80021109823
Web of Science
https://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcAuth=JSTA_CEL&SrcApp=J_Gate_JST&DestLinkType=FullRecord&KeyUT=WOS:000278096500003&DestApp=WOS_CPL
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  • DOI : 10.1007/s00269-009-0338-7
  • ISSN : 0342-1791
  • CiNii Articles ID : 80021109823
  • Web of Science ID : WOS:000278096500003

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