Polymerization and diamond formation from melting methane and their implications in ice layer of giant planets

Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors

Volumn 174, Issue 1-4, 2009, Pages 242-246

  Hirai, Hisako ^a   Konagai, Keisuke ^a   Kawamura, Taro ^b   Yamamoto, Yoshitaka ^b   Yagi, Takehiko ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Diamond; Icy planet interiors; LHDAC; Melting; Polymerization; Solid methane

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL PROCESS; DIAMOND FORMATIONS; ETHANE MOLECULES; GIANT PLANETS; HIGH PRESSURE AND HIGH TEMPERATURES; ICE LAYERS; ICY PLANET INTERIORS; LASER-HEATED DIAMOND ANVIL CELLS; LHDAC; MELTING CONDITIONS; NEPTUNE; PRESSURE RANGES; SOLID METHANE; THEORETICAL PREDICTIONS; X-RAY DIFFRACTOMETRY;

DIAMONDS; ETHANE; EXPERIMENTAL MINERALOGY; INTERPLANETARY FLIGHT; MELTING; METHANE; MONOMERS; OCEAN ENGINEERING; OCEANOGRAPHY; PLANETS; POLYMERIZATION; POLYMERS;

POLYMER MELTS;

CONTINENTAL INTERIOR; DIAMOND ANVIL CELL; HIGH PRESSURE; HIGH TEMPERATURE; ICE; MELTING; METHANE; NEPTUNE; POLYMERIZATION; RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY; URANUS; X-RAY DIFFRACTION;

EID: 67349182148     PISSN: 00319201     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pepi.2008.06.011     Document Type: Article

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