Si isotope fractionation between Si-poor metal and silicate melt at pressure-temperature conditions relevant to metal segregation in small planetary bodies

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 368, Issue , 2013, Pages 61-68

  Kempl, J ^a   Vroon, P Z ^a   Zinngrebe, E ^b   van Westrenen, W ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b SWINDEN TECHNOLOGY CENTRE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Core formation; Metal silicate system; Silicon isotopes; Stable isotope fractionation

Indexed keywords

CORE FORMATION; EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATIONS; HIGH TEMPERATURE PROCESS; ISOTOPIC FRACTIONATIONS; METAL-SILICATE SYSTEM; PRESSURE-TEMPERATURE CONDITIONS; SILICON ISOTOPES; STABLE ISOTOPE FRACTIONATIONS;

BLAST FURNACES; ISOTOPES; METALS; METEORITES; PLANETS; SILICATES; SILICON; SILICON OXIDES; SLAGS;

SEGREGATION (METALLOGRAPHY);

ALLOY; CHLADNITE; CONFINING PRESSURE; CORE (PLANETARY); ENSTATITE CHONDRITE; HIGH PRESSURE; HIGH TEMPERATURE; ISOTOPIC FRACTIONATION; LOW TEMPERATURE; SILICATE MELT; SILICON; STABLE ISOTOPE;

IJMUIDEN; NETHERLANDS; NORTH HOLLAND;

EID: 84875783844     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2013.02.031     Document Type: Article

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