Solubilities of O and Si in liquid iron in equilibrium with (Mg,Fe)SiO3 perovskite and the light elements in the core

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 32, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 1-4

  Takafuji, Naoto ^a   Hirose, Kei ^a   Mitome, Masanori ^b   Bando, Yoshio ^b  

^a Tokyo Institute of Technology ^*  (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRON ENERGY LOSS SPECTROSCOPY; ENERGY DISPERSIVE SPECTROSCOPY; IRON; LASER APPLICATIONS; OXYGEN; QUENCHING; REACTION KINETICS; SILICON; SOLUBILITY; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

CORE DENSITY; CORE LIQUIDS; LASER-HEATED DIAMOND ANVIL CELL (LHDAC); LIQUID IRON;

PEROVSKITE;

CORE (PLANETARY); EQUILIBRIUM; EXPERIMENTAL MINERALOGY; GEOCHEMISTRY; IRON; OXYGEN; PEROVSKITE; SILICON; SOLUBILITY;

ANGUILLIFORMES;

EID: 20044369407     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2005GL022773     Document Type: Article

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