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Thermal equation of state of a natural kyanite up to 8.55 GPa and 1273 K

  • Qiang He
  • , Xi Liu
  • , Baosheng Li
  • , Liwei Deng
  • , Wei Liu
  • , Liping Wang
  • Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China
  • Peking University
  • China Academy of Engineering Physics
  • Chinese Academy of Sciences
  • Stony Brook University
  • University of Nevada, Las Vegas

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Abstract

The thermal equation of state of a natural kyanite has been investigated with a DIA-type, cubic-anvil apparatus (SAM85) combined with an energy-dispersive synchrotron X-ray radiation technique up to 8.55 GPa and 1273 K. No phase transition was observed in the studied pressure-temperature (P-T) range. The Le Bail full profile refinement technique was used to derive the unit-cell parameters. By fixing the bulk modulus K0 as 196 GPa and its pressure derivative K0 as 4, our P-V (volume)-T data were fitted to the high temperature Birch–Murnaghan equation of state. The obtained parameters for the kyanite are: V0 = 294.05(9) Å3, α = 2.53(11) × 10−5 K−1 and (∂K/∂T)P = −0.021(8) GPa∙K−1. These parameters have been combined with other experimentally-measured thermodynamic data for the relevant phases to calculate the P-T locus of the reaction kyanite = stishovite + corundum. With this thermodynamically constrained phase boundary, previous high-pressure phase equilibrium experimental studies with the multi-anvil press have been evaluated.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)269-276
Number of pages8
JournalMatter and Radiation at Extremes
Volume1
Issue number5
DOIs
StatePublished - Sep 2016

Keywords

  • High-pressure and high-temperature
  • Kyanite
  • Kyanite decomposition
  • Thermal equation of state
  • Thermodynamic calculation
  • X-ray diffraction

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