Tungsten in ordinary chondrites |
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| Authors: | Ermanno R Rambaldi Miguel Cendales |
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| Institution: | Abteilung Kosmochemie, Max-Planck-Institut für Chemie (Otto-Hahn-Institut), Mainz Federal Republic of Germany |
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| Abstract: | In ordinary chondrites tungsten displays both lithophile and siderophile characteristics. Its concentration in the metal phase is positively correlated with petrologic type, and with the distribution coefficientKD =W in metal/W in silicates plus troilite. The oxidation-reduction reactions involved are temperature-dependent and the recrystallization temperature recorded on the basis of the partition of W between coexisting metal and silicate plus troilite fractions are950° ± 100°C for equilibrated chondrites (types 5 and 6), and800° ± 50°C for type 4, while Shaw (L7) records the highest recrystallization temperature (>1200°C).The different metallic content of the three groups of ordinary chondrites has been attributed to a metal-silicate fractionation process. Such a process appears to have fractionated W and Ir, but not W and Fe as these elements were partly oxidized when the fractionation process took place. |
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