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Insights into solar nebula formation of pyrrhotite from nanoscale disequilibrium phases produced by H2S sulfidation of Fe metal

  • Zack Gainsforth EMAIL logo , Dante S. Lauretta , Nobumichi Tamura , Andrew J. Westphal , Christine E. Jilly-Rehak und Anna L. Butterworth
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Aus der Zeitschrift American Mineralogist Band 102 Heft 9

Abstract

Lauretta (2005) produced sulfide in the laboratory by exposing canonical nebular metal analogs to H2S gas under temperatures and pressures relevant to the formation of the Solar System. The resulting reactions produced a suite of sulfides and nanophase materials not visible at the microprobe scale, but which we have now analyzed by TEM for comparison with interplanetary dust samples and comet Wild 2 samples returned by the Stardust mission. We find the unexpected result that disequilibrium formation favors pyrrhotite over troilite and also produces minority schreibersite, daubréelite, barringerite, taenite, oldhamite, and perryite at the metal-sulfide interface. TEM identification of nanophases and analysis of pyrrhotite superlattice reflections illuminate the formation pathway of disequilibrium sulfide. We discuss the conditions under which such disequilibrium can occur, and implications for formation of sulfide found in extraterrestrial materials.

Keywords: Pyrrhotite; troilite; sulfide; planetary science; TEM; XRD; H2S; comet

Acknowledgments

We thank our editor Rhian Jones, as well as Adrian Brearley and an anonymous reviewer for insightful evaluation of this paper. Their efforts significantly improved the quality of this work. The ALS and NCEM are supported by the Director, Office of Energy Research, Office of Basic Energy Sciences, Materials Sciences Division of the U.S. Department of Energy, under Contract No. DE-AC02-05CH11231.

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Received: 2016-5-6
Accepted: 2017-5-23
Published Online: 2017-9-5
Published in Print: 2017-9-26

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https://doi.org/10.2138/am-2017-5848
Schlagwörter für diesen Artikel
Pyrrhotite; troilite; sulfide; planetary science; TEM; XRD; H2S; comet

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