A kinetic study of the exsolution of pentlandite (Ni,Fe 9S8 from the monosulfide solid solution (Fe,Ni)S

American Mineralogist

Volumn 89, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 39-50

  Etschmann, Barbara ^a   Pring, Allan ^a,b,c   Putnis, Andrew ^d   Grguric, Benjamin A ^e   Studer, Andrew ^f  

^a SOUTH AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^c FLINDERS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^e BHP BILLITON   (Australia)

^f AUSTRALIAN NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ORGANISATION   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATION ENERGY; ANNEALING; COOLING; CRYSTAL IMPURITIES; CRYSTALLIZATION; GEOLOGY; GRAIN BOUNDARIES; IRON COMPOUNDS; KINETICS; NICKEL COMPOUNDS; NUCLEATION; RATE CONSTANTS; SOLID SOLUTIONS; TEMPERATURE; TEXTURES; TIME MEASUREMENT;

ANNEALING TEMPERATURES; COMPOSITION RANGES; GEOMETRIC CONSTANT; GROWTH MECHANISMS; MONOSULFIDE SOLID SOLUTIONS; ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE; POWDER NEUTRON DIFFRACTION DATA; VERY LOW TEMPERATURES;

SULFUR COMPOUNDS;

CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; EXSOLUTION; PENTLANDITE; REACTION KINETICS; SOLID SOLUTION;

EID: 0842344452     PISSN: 0003004X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2138/am-2004-0106     Document Type: Article

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