Microscopic origins of macroscopic properties of silicate melts and glasses at ambient and high pressure: Implications for melt generation and dynamics |
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| Authors: | Sung Keun Lee |
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| Institution: | 1 Geophysical Laboratory, Carnegie Institution of Washington, 5251 Broad Branch Road, Washington, DC 20015, USA
2 School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Seoul National University, Seoul, 151-742, Republic of Korea |
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| Abstract: | Recent development and advances in solid state NMR, together with theoretical analyses using quantum-chemical calculations and statistical mechanical modeling, have allowed us to estimate and quantify the detailed distributions of cations and anions in model silicate glasses and melts with varying pressure, temperature and composition. How these microscopic, atomic-scale distributions in the melts from NMR and simulations affect the thermodynamic and transport properties relevant to magmatic processes has been extensively explored recently. Here, based on these previous studies, we present a classification scheme to quantify the various aspects of disorder in covalent oxide glasses and melts on scales of less than 1 nm. The scheme includes contributions from both chemical and topological disorder. Chemical disorder can further be divided into 1] connectivity, which quantifies the extent of mixing among framework units (often parameterized by the degree of Al avoidance or phase separation) and the extent of polymerization (mixing between framework and nonframework cations), and 2] nonframework disorder, which denotes the distribution of network-modifying or charge-balancing cations. Topological disorder includes the distribution of bond lengths and angles. We use this framework of disorder quantification to summarize recent progress on the structures of silicate melts and glasses, mainly obtained from 2D triple quantum magic-angle spinning (3QMAS) NMR, as functions of temperature, pressure, and composition.Most glasses and melts studied show a tendency for chemical ordering in connectivity, nonframework disorder and topological disorder at ambient and high pressure. The chemical ordering in framework disorder, a manifestation of energetics in the melts and glasses, contributes to the total negative deviation of activity of oxides from ideal solution in silicate melts (reduced activity). While no definite evidence of clustering among nonframework cations was found, these cations tend to form dissimilar pairs upon mixing with other types of network modifying cations. Topological disorder in silicate glasses and melts tends to increase with increasing pressure, as suggested by increasing bond angle and length distribution, while the chemical order seems to be maintained with pressure. We calculate key macroscopic properties, including the activity coefficient of silica and viscosity, based on the quantitative estimation of the extent of disorder from solid-state NMR, in particular 17O 3QMAS NMR. Structural ordering in melts may strongly affect the composition of partial melts in equilibrium with solids, increasing the silica composition of partial melts as a result. With increasing chemical order, the configurational entropy decreases, which can be correlated to an increase in viscosity of melts. |
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