Experimental evidence for mo isotope fractionation between metal and silicate liquids

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 379, Issue , 2013, Pages 38-48

  Hin, Remco C ^a,d   Burkhardt, Christoph ^a   Schmidt, Max W ^a   Bourdon, Bernard ^a,b   Kleine, Thorsten ^c  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Core formation; Metal silicate experiments; Mo isotopes; Stable isotope fractionation

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL CONSEQUENCES; CORE FORMATION; EQUILIBRIUM FRACTIONATIONS; EXPERIMENTAL EVIDENCE; ISOTOPE FRACTIONATION; METAL-SILICATE EQUILIBRATIONS; SIDEROPHILE ELEMENTS; STABLE ISOTOPE FRACTIONATIONS;

EXPERIMENTS; ISOTOPES; LIQUID METALS; METALS; SILICATES; TIN; TIN OXIDES; TOOLS;

MOLYBDENUM;

CORE-MANTLE BOUNDARY; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FUGACITY; GRAPHITE; ISOTOPIC FRACTIONATION; ISOTOPIC RATIO; MELTING; MOLYBDENUM; OXYGEN; SIDEROPHILE ELEMENT; SILICATE; SILICATE MELT; STABLE ISOTOPE;

EID: 84883035489     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2013.08.003     Document Type: Article

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