Abstract
Compressibility of solids generally drops as compression proceeds. Bonds shorten and stiffen with density increase in the same structure. However for the B1-B2 phase transition in many measured alkali halides, bond lengths increase in going to the denser phase. And IR mode frequencies decrease (Hofmeister 1997), leading to the counter-intuitive expectation that compressibility should increase in going to the denser B2 phase. Past volume measurements have been equivocal at best in recognizing any such compressibility increase. New thermal equations of state for B1 and B2 KCl from in-situ X-ray diffraction measurements of phase volumes on Station 16.4 of the CLRC Daresbury Laboratory are no less equivocal about the issue of whether compressibility increases or decreases across the transition. In contrast, the new volume measurements show an easily resolved thermal expansion increase in going from B1 to B2 KCl. The product a·K, which is better known than either α or K, increases from 0.0195 ± 0.0005 kbar/°C in B1 to 0.0275 ± 0.0009 kbar/°C in B2 KCl. Yagi (1978) demonstrated a similar increase for KF, also supported mainly by increases in a. This increase can also be seen in RbCl (Walker et al. 2001). Bond weakening indicated by the thermal expansion increase is consistent with the elusive compressibility increase that is expected across the B1-B2 transition but which is not resolved from volume measurements. The thermal effects are more visible than the compressional effects on α·K across the transition. Bond tightening upon decompression reduces α, increases solid viscosity, and hence decreases the Rayleigh number. An upwelling of material undergoing a decompression phase change with decrease of coordination number may have its convective friskiness damped at such a transition
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Artikel in diesem Heft
- Thermal equations of state for B1 and B2 KCl
- Determination of molar absorptivities for infrared absorption bands of H2O in andesitic glasses
- H2O activity in H2O-N2 fluids at high pressure and temperature measured by the brucitepericlase equilibrium
- Kinetics of iron oxidation-reduction in hydrous silicic melts
- Kinetics of cation ordering in synthetic MgAl2O4 spinel
- Structural properties and heat-induced oxidation-dehydrogenation of manganoan ilvaite from Perda Niedda mine, Sardinia, Italy
- Ultrahigh-pressure metamorphism in western Tianshan, China: Part I. Evidence from inclusions of coesite pseudomorphs in garnet and from quartz exsolution lamellae in omphacite in eclogites
- Ultra-high pressure metamorphism in western Tianshan, China: Part II. Evidence from magnesite in eclogite
- Discovery of clinoenstatite in garnet pyroxenites from the Dabie-Sulu ultrahigh-pressure terrane, east-central China
- Ultrahigh-pressure (UHP) low-Al titanites from carbonate-bearing rocks in Dabieshan- Sulu UHP terrane, eastern China
- Metamictization and recrystallization of titanite: An infrared spectroscopic study
- Fine structure of infrared OH-stretching bands in natural and heat-treated amphiboles of the tremolite-ferro-actinolite series
- Correlation between OH concentration and oxygen isotope diffusion rate in diopsides from the Adirondack Mountains, New York
- The substitution Fe3+-Al and the isosymmetric displacive phase transition in synthetic zoisite: A powder X-ray and infrared spectroscopy study
- In situ X-ray observation of the reaction dolomite = aragonite + magnesite at 900–1300 K
- High-pressure single-crystal X-ray and powder neutron study of F,OH/OD-chondrodite: Compressibility, structure, and hydrogen bonding
- Quantitative characterization of biotic iron oxides by analytical electron microscopy
- Synthesis and NMR characterization (1H and 31P MAS) of the fluorine-free hydroxylapatite–britholite-(Y) series
- Quantum mechanical calculations of dioctahedral 2:1 phyllosilicates: Effect of octahedral cation distributions in pyrophyllite, illite, and smectite
- The nature of disorder in montmorillonite by simulation of X-ray powder patterns
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- Some remarks on fission-track observational biases and crystallographic orientation effects
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- The strength of moissanite
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