Stability of body-centered cubic iron-magnesium alloys in the Earth's inner core

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 106, Issue 37, 2009, Pages 15560-15562

  Kádas, Krisztina ^a,b   Vitos, Levente ^a,b,c   Johansson, Börje ^a,c   Ahuja, Rajeev ^a,c  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b WIGNER RESEARCH CENTRE FOR PHYSICS   (Hungary)

^c ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Ab initio calculations; High pressure

Indexed keywords

ALLOY; IRON; MAGNESIUM;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; GEOLOGY; PRESSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOLUBILITY; TEMPERATURE; THERMODYNAMICS; YOUNG MODULUS;

EID: 70349451162     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0904859106     Document Type: Article

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