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Equation of state of the high-pressure Fe3O4 phase and a new structural transition at 70 GPa

  • Angele Ricolleau EMAIL logo and Yingwei Fei
Published/Copyright: March 4, 2016
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American Mineralogist
From the journal American Mineralogist Volume 101 Issue 3

Abstract

We have investigated the high-pressure behavior of Fe3O4 by in situ X-ray diffraction measurements from 11 to 103 GPa. Up to 70 GPa, the previous observed high-pressure Fe3O4 phase (h-Fe3O4) is stable, with a CaTi2O4-type structure. The compression curve shows an abnormal volume contraction at about 50 GPa, likely associated with the magnetic moment collapse observed at that pressure. Fitting the compression data up to 45 GPa to the Birch-Murnaghan equation of state yields a bulk modulus, KT0 = 172 GPa, and V0 = 277 Å3, with fixed Kʹ = 4. At a pressure between 64 and 73 GPa, a new structural transition was observed in Fe3O4, which can be attributed to a martensitic transformation as described by Yamanaka et al. (2008) for post-spinel structural transition. The diffraction data can be best fitted with a Pnma space group. No breakdown of Fe3O4 was observed up to at least 103 GPa. The new high-pressure polymorph is about 6% denser than the h-Fe3O4 phase at 75 GPa.

Keywords: h-Fe3O4; magnetite; high pressure; phase transition; post-spinel; XRD data

Acknowledgments

This work was supported by NSF geophysics grant to Y.F. and by the Carnegie Institution of Washington. We thank V. Prakapenka and P. Dera for technical assistance and C. Seagle for collecting part of the experimental data. The X-ray diffraction data were collected at APS GSECARS beamline supported by NSF, DOE, and the State of Illinois.

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  1. Manuscript handled by Lars Ehm.

Received: 2015-5-4
Accepted: 2015-10-18
Published Online: 2016-3-4
Published in Print: 2016-3-1

© 2016 by Walter de Gruyter Berlin/Boston

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Keywords for this article
h-Fe3O4; magnetite; high pressure; phase transition; post-spinel; XRD data

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