Phase relations of Fe-Si alloy in Earth's core

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 36, Issue 6, 2009, Pages

  Lin, Jung Fu ^a,d   Scott, Henry P ^a,b   Fischer, Rebecca A ^c,d   Chang, Yun Yuan ^b,c,d   Kantor, Innokenty ^c,d   Prakapenka, Vitali B ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY SOUTH BEND   (United States)

^c NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BCC PHASIS; COEXISTENCE REGION; EARTH'S CORE; FE-SI ALLOYS; HCP STRUCTURE; HIGH TEMPERATURE; IN-SITU; INNER CORE; LASER-HEATED DIAMOND ANVIL CELLS; PHASE RELATION; STARTING MATERIALS;

IRON ALLOYS; SILICON; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

SILICON ALLOYS;

ALLOY; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; DIAMOND; EARTH STRUCTURE; HIGH TEMPERATURE; IRON; LASER; OUTER CORE; SILICON; X-RAY DIFFRACTION;

EID: 66949133548     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008GL036990     Document Type: Article

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