Thermo dynamic stability of Fe/O solid solution at inner-core conditions

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 27, Issue 16, 2000, Pages 2417-2420

  Alfe, D ^a   Price, G D ^b   Gillan, M J ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c Research School of Geological and Geophysical Sciences   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INNER CORE; IRON; OXYGEN; SOLID SOLUTION; THERMODYNAMICS;

IRON; LATTICE VIBRATIONS; OXYGEN; SOLID SOLUTIONS; THERMODYNAMIC STABILITY; CHEMICAL POTENTIAL; CRYSTAL IMPURITIES; DISSOLVED OXYGEN; ENTROPY; FREE ENERGY; SUBSTITUTION REACTIONS;

CHEMICAL POTENTIAL; INNER CORE CONDITIONS;

GEOCHEMISTRY; CALCULATIONS;

AB INITIO CALCULATIONS; ANHARMONIC LATTICES; ANHARMONIC SOLIDS; HIGH TEMPERATURE; REFERENCE MODELS; SUBSTITUTIONAL IMPURITIES; THERMODYNAMIC INTEGRATION; VIBRATIONAL AMPLITUDES;

EID: 0034352659     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2000GL011567     Document Type: Article

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