High-pressure behavior of iron carbide (Fe7C3) at inner core conditions

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 116, Issue 4, 2011, Pages

  Mookherjee, Mainak ^a   Nakajima, Yoichi ^a   Steinle Neumann, Gerd ^a   Glazyrin, Konstantin ^a   Wu, Xiang ^a,b   Dubrovinsky, Leonid ^a   McCammon, Catherine ^a   Chumakov, Aleksandr ^c  

^a UNIVERSITÄT BAYREUTH   (Germany)

^b PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c EUROPEAN SYNCHROTRON RADIATION FACILITY   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON; COMPRESSION; EQUATION OF STATE; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; HIGH PRESSURE; INNER CORE; IRON; P-WAVE; PHASE TRANSITION; S-WAVE; SEISMOLOGY; WAVE VELOCITY;

EID: 79953719689     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010JB007819     Document Type: Article

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