Effect of Ni on Fe-FeS phase relations at high pressure and high temperature

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 268, Issue 1-2, 2008, Pages 212-218

  Zhang, Li ^a,b   Fei, Yingwei ^a  

^a GEOPHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b SOUTHWEST JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Earth's core; high pressure; light element; melting; nickel

Indexed keywords

EUTECTIC MELTING; SOLID ALLOY;

DENSITY (SPECIFIC GRAVITY); EUTECTICS; HIGH PRESSURE EFFECTS; HIGH TEMPERATURE EFFECTS; IRON ALLOYS; METAL MELTING; SOLUBILITY;

TERNARY SYSTEMS;

ALLOY; HIGH PRESSURE; HIGH TEMPERATURE; INNER CORE; IRON SULFIDE; MELTING; NICKEL; OUTER CORE; PHASE TRANSITION; SOLID SOLUTION; SOLUBILITY;

EID: 40849112906     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2008.01.028     Document Type: Article

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