Melting of iron at the physical conditions of the Earth's core

Nature

Volumn 427, Issue 6972, 2004, Pages 339-342

  Nguyen, Jeffrey H ^a   Holmes, Neil C ^a  

^a LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; IRON; MELTING; PHASE TRANSITIONS;

PHASE DIAGRAM;

MINERALOGY;

IRON;

CORE (PLANETARY); IRON; MELTING; PHYSICAL PROPERTY; SEISMOLOGY;

ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MELTING POINT; PHASE TRANSITION; PRESSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUND; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 1642458363     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature02248     Document Type: Article

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