Partitioning experiments in the laser-heated diamond anvil cell: Volatile content in the Earth's core

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 366, Issue 1883, 2008, Pages 4295-4314

  Jephcoat, Andrew P ^a,b   Bouhifd, M Ali ^b   Porcelli, Don ^b  

^a DIAMOND LIGHT SOURCE LTD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Fibre laser; Helium; High pressure; Iodine; Laser heated diamond anvil cell; Partitioning

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC PHYSICS; ATOMS; CHEMICAL ELEMENTS; DIAMONDS; EARTH (PLANET); EXPERIMENTS; GALLIUM; HELIUM; HIGH PRESSURE ENGINEERING; INDUSTRIAL CHEMICALS; INERT GASES; IODINE; LASERS; OCEAN CURRENTS; RADIOACTIVITY; SILICATES; SOLAR SYSTEM; TOOLS; TRACE ANALYSIS;

ATOMIC NUMBERS; DEEP MANTLES; DIAMOND ANVILS; EARTH'S CORES; EXCHANGE PROCESSES; EXPERIMENTAL EVIDENCES; FIBRE LASER; HIGH PRESSURE; KEY PROCESSES; MACROSCOPIC; MAGMA OCEANS; MANTLE COMPOSITIONS; PARTITIONING; PRESSURE AND TEMPERATURES; PRESSURE LIMITS; RECENT DEVELOPMENTS; SEGREGATION PROCESSES; SIDEROPHILE; VOLATILE CONTENTS; VOLATILE TRACE ELEMENTS;

TRACE ELEMENTS;

DIAMOND;

ASTRONOMY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

DIAMOND; EARTH (PLANET); EVOLUTION, PLANETARY; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PLANETS; SOLAR SYSTEM;

EID: 54049142157     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2008.0226     Document Type: Article

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