Viscosity measurements in liquid iron and iron sulfides at high pressures and the calculation of the Earth's core viscosity

Izvestiya, Physics of the Solid Earth

Volumn 41, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 539-554

  Mineev, V N ^a   Funtikov, A I ^a  

^a RUSSIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (Russian Federation)

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