The quartz capsule - A new method to avoid alloying problems with noble-metal capsules in hydrothermal experiments

European Journal of Mineralogy

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 683-693

  Lerchbaumer, Linda ^a   Audétat, Andreas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÄT BAYREUTH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Alloying; Hydrothermal experimental techniques; LA ICP MS; Quartz liner; Synthetic fluid inclusions

Indexed keywords

ALLOYING; CONTAINER CLOSURES; CRYSTALS; GLASS; MINERALOGY; QUARTZ; SILICON; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

CYLINDRICAL CONTAINERS; ELEVATED PRESSURE; EXPERIMENTAL TECHNIQUES; HYDROTHERMAL EXPERIMENTS; LA-ICP-MS; LOW MELTING POINT; RECRYSTALLISATION; SYNTHETIC FLUIDS;

PRECIOUS METALS;

ALLOY; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; EXPERIMENTAL MINERALOGY; FLUID INCLUSION; HYDROTHERMAL ACTIVITY; INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA METHOD; LASER METHOD; PRESSURE EFFECT; QUARTZ; RECRYSTALLIZATION; TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

EID: 84861714220     PISSN: 09351221     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1127/0935-1221/2012/0024-2216     Document Type: Article

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