Partitioning of nickel and cobalt between silicate perovskite and metal at pressures up to 80 GPa

Nature

Volumn 398, Issue 6728, 1999, Pages 604-607

  Tschauner, O ^a   Zerr, A ^a   Specht, S ^a   Rocholl, A ^b   Boehler, R ^a   Palme, H ^c  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR CHEMISTRY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COBALT; IRON ALLOYS; NICKEL; PRESSURE EFFECTS; SILICATES;

SIDEROPHILIC;

PEROVSKITE;

COBALT; METAL; NICKEL; SILICATE;

ACCRETION; COBALT; MANTLE CHEMISTRY; NICKEL; PEROVSKITE;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; GEOLOGY; HIGH TEMPERATURE; MASS SPECTROMETRY; NATURAL SCIENCE; PARTITION COEFFICIENT; PRESSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY;

EID: 0033561490     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/19287     Document Type: Article

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