Water in Albitic Glasses |
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| Authors: | SILVER LYNN; STOLPER EDWARD |
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| Institution: | Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences, California Institute of Technology Pasadena, California 91125 |
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| Abstract: | Infrared spectroscopy has been calibrated to provide a preciseand accurate method for determining the concentrations of molecularwater and hydroxyl groups in hydrous albitic glasses. At totalwater contents less than 4 wt.%, most of the water is dissolvedas hydroxyl groups; at higher total water contents, molecularwater becomes the dominant species. For total water contentsabove 4 wt.%, the amount of water dissolved as hydroxyl groupsis nearly constant at about 2 wt.% and additional water is incorporatedas molecular water. These trends in the concentrations of theH-bearing species are similar to those observed in other silicateglasses using infrared and NMR spectroscopies. The ratio ofmolecular water to hydroxyl groups at a given total water contentis independent of the pressure and only weakly dependent onthe temperature of equilibration. Molecular water and hydroxyl group concentrations in glassesprovide constraints on the dissolution mechanisms of water insilicate liquids. Several mixing models involving homogeneousequilibria of the form H2O+O2– = 2OH– among meltspecies in albitic melts have been developed. These models canaccount for the measured species concentrations if the effectsof non-ideal behavior or mixing of polymerized units are included,or by allowing for several different anhydrous species. We used two thermodynamic models of hydrous albitic melts tocalculate phase equilibria. The first assumes that Henry's lawholds for molecular water in albitic liquids; i.e. that theactivity of molecular water in the melt is proportional to itsmole fraction as determined by infrared spectroscopy. The seconddescribes the speciation and thermodynamics of hydrous albiticmelts using the formalism of a strictly regular solution. Thesemodels can account reasonably well for the position of the vapor-saturatedsolidus of high albite and the pressure and temperature dependenceof the solubility of water in albitic melts. To the extent thatthese models are successful, our approach provides a directlink between measured species concentrations in hydrous albiticglasses and the macroscopic thermodyn amic properties of theNaAlSi3O8-H2O system. |
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