Phase relations in the system Fe-FeSi at 21 GPa

American Mineralogist

Volumn 89, Issue 2-3, 2004, Pages 273-276

  Kuwayama, Yasuhiro ^a   Hirose, Kei ^a  

^a TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CESIUM COMPOUNDS; EUTECTICS; SILICON ALLOYS;

BINARY SYSTEMS; COMPOSITIONAL DIFFERENCE; EUTECTIC POINTS; HIGH-PRESSURE EXPERIMENT; MULTI-ANVIL APPARATUS; PHASE RELATION; REDUCING CONDITIONS; TEMPERATURE DIFFERENCES;

IRON ALLOYS;

CORE (PLANETARY); EXPERIMENTAL MINERALOGY; HIGH PRESSURE; IRON; PHASE EQUILIBRIUM; SILICON;

EID: 1642279595     PISSN: 0003004X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2138/am-2004-2-303     Document Type: Article

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