Anomalous behavior of sound velocity and attenuation in liquid Fe-Ni-S

Science

Volumn 277, Issue 5323, 1997, Pages 219-221

  Nasch, Philippe M ^a   Manghnani, Murli H ^a   Secco, Richard A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IRON; NICKEL; SULFUR;

ARTICLE; COMPRESSION; GEOLOGY; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUND TRANSMISSION; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 0030849482     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.277.5323.219     Document Type: Article

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56. Supported by grants from NSF (EAR-89-17531 and EAR-90-06790), the W. M. Keck Foundation, and the School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology, University of Hawaii. P.M.N. further acknowledges financial support for graduate study from the following sponsors in Switzerland: Foundation L. and H. Mouttet (LEMO S.A.), Foundation Fern-Moffat (Société Académique Vaudoise), and Foundation Sunburst (Council of the Swiss Institutes of Technology). We acknowledge the valuable comments and suggestions made on the manuscript by D. Loper, Florida State University, and by the two anonymous reviewers. School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology contribution number 4500.