A new high-pressure phase of spinel |
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| Authors: | Lin-Gun Liu |
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| Institution: | Research School of Earth Sciences, Australian National University, Canberra, A.C.T. 2600 Australia |
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| Abstract: | A new phase which is much denser than the component oxides of spinel (MgAl2O4) was synthesised at loading pressures greater than 250 kbar and at about 1000°C in a diamond-anvil press coupled with laser heating. The new phase (ε-MgAl2O4) was indexed on the basis of an orthorhombic cell with a = 8.507 ± 0.004, b = 2.740 ± 0.003, c = 9.407 ± 0.005Å, and Z = 4 at room temperature and 1 bar pressure. Thus the molar volume for ε-MgAl2O4 at the above conditions was calculated to be 33.01 ± 0.07 cm3, which is 10.3% less than that of the mixture corundum plus periclase. The dense phase of spinel found in shock-wave experiments can be reasonably interpreted as ε-MgAl2O4, and this may be a potentially important mineral component of the earth's lower mantle. The new structure may also provide a possible candidate for the dense phases of Fe3O4 and Mg2SiO4 which were found by shock experiments. |
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