Density measurements on melts at high pressure using the sink/float method: Limitations and possibilities

Chemical Geology

Volumn 128, Issue 1-4, 1996, Pages 229-243

  Knoche, Ruth ^a,b   Luth, Robert W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÄT BAYREUTH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DENSITY; SILICATE MELT; SINK/FLOAT METHOD;

EID: 0029750673     PISSN: 00092541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0009-2541(95)00176-X     Document Type: Article

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