Experimental determination of the Si isotope fractionation factor between liquid metal and liquid silicate

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 387, Issue , 2014, Pages 55-66

  Hin, Remco C ^a,c   Fitoussi, Caroline ^a,b   Schmidt, Max W ^a   Bourdon, Bernard ^a,b  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Core formation; Metal silicate experiments; Si isotope fractionation

Indexed keywords

CORE FORMATION; EQUILIBRIUM FRACTIONATIONS; EXPERIMENTAL DETERMINATION; FRACTIONATION FACTORS; MASS SPECTROMETRIC ANALYSIS; METAL-SILICATE EQUILIBRATIONS; SI ISOTOPES; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE;

ALKALINITY; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; EXPERIMENTS; LIQUID METALS; METALS; SILICATES; SILICON; TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION; TIN;

ISOTOPES;

CORE (PLANETARY); GRAPHITE; ION EXCHANGE; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; ISOTOPIC FRACTIONATION; METAL; SILICATE; SILICON;

EID: 84888867585     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2013.11.016     Document Type: Article

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