Compression of Fe88.1Ni9.1S2.8 alloy up to the pressure of Earth's inner core

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 117, Issue 2, 2012, Pages

  Sakai, Takeshi ^a   Ohtani, Eiji ^a   Kamada, Seiji ^a   Terasaki, Hidenori ^b   Hirao, Naohisa ^c  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c JAPAN SYNCHROTRON RADIATION RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLOY; DENSITY; INNER CORE; IRON; NICKEL; PRESSURE EFFECT; SULFUR;

EID: 84857422724     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011JB008745     Document Type: Article

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