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The strength of moissanite

  • Jianzhong Zhang EMAIL logo , Liping Wang , Donald J. Weidner , Takeyuki Uchida and Ji-An Xu
Published/Copyright: March 28, 2015
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American Mineralogist
From the journal American Mineralogist Volume 87 Issue 7

Abstract

The yield strength of moissanite was investigated at pressures up to 18.3 GPa and temperatures up to 1200 °C by analyzing the peak shapes of diffraction lines from a powder sample. At room temperature, the moissanite crystal behaves elastically with increasing pressure up to 13.7 GPa. At higher pressures applied, the sample is yielded; the yield strength of moissanite is determined to be 13.6 GPa. Upon heating at 18.3 GPa, significant stress relaxation is observed at temperatures above 400°C, and the yield strength of moissanite decreases rapidly from 12.8 GPa at 400°C to 4.2 GPa at 1200°C. Such behavior will place severe limitations on the use of moissanite as an anvil material when external heating is desired for high pressure and temperature experiments

Received: 2001-10-29
Accepted: 2002-2-11
Published Online: 2015-3-28
Published in Print: 2002-7-1

© 2015 by Walter de Gruyter Berlin/Boston

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https://doi.org/10.2138/am-2002-0725

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  1. Thermal equations of state for B1 and B2 KCl
  2. Determination of molar absorptivities for infrared absorption bands of H2O in andesitic glasses
  3. H2O activity in H2O-N2 fluids at high pressure and temperature measured by the brucitepericlase equilibrium
  4. Kinetics of iron oxidation-reduction in hydrous silicic melts
  5. Kinetics of cation ordering in synthetic MgAl2O4 spinel
  6. Structural properties and heat-induced oxidation-dehydrogenation of manganoan ilvaite from Perda Niedda mine, Sardinia, Italy
  7. 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
  8. Ultra-high pressure metamorphism in western Tianshan, China: Part II. Evidence from magnesite in eclogite
  9. Discovery of clinoenstatite in garnet pyroxenites from the Dabie-Sulu ultrahigh-pressure terrane, east-central China
  10. Ultrahigh-pressure (UHP) low-Al titanites from carbonate-bearing rocks in Dabieshan- Sulu UHP terrane, eastern China
  11. Metamictization and recrystallization of titanite: An infrared spectroscopic study
  12. Fine structure of infrared OH-stretching bands in natural and heat-treated amphiboles of the tremolite-ferro-actinolite series
  13. Correlation between OH concentration and oxygen isotope diffusion rate in diopsides from the Adirondack Mountains, New York
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  20. The nature of disorder in montmorillonite by simulation of X-ray powder patterns
  21. Ferripedrizite, a new monoclinic BLi amphibole end-member from the Eastern Pedriza Massif, Sierra de Guadarrama, Spain, and a restatement of the nomenclature of Mg-Fe-Mn-Li amphiboles
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