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Thermal equation of state of ice-VII revisited by single-crystal X-ray diffraction

  • Xiaojing Lai , Feng Zhu , Dongzhou Zhang , Sergey Tkachev , Vitali B. Prakapenka , Keng-Hsien Chao and Bin Chen
Published/Copyright: July 27, 2023
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From the journal American Mineralogist Volume 108 Issue 8

Abstract

Ice-VII is a high-pressure polymorph of H2O ice and an important mineral widely present in many planetary environments, such as in the interiors of large icy planetary bodies, within some cold subducted slabs, and in diamonds of deep origin as mineral inclusions. However, its stability at high pressures and high temperatures and thermoelastic properties are still under debate. In this study, we synthesized ice-VII single crystals in externally heated diamond-anvil cells and conducted single-crystal X-ray difraction experiments up to 78 GPa and 1000 K to revisit the high-pressure and high-temperature phase stability and thermoelastic properties of ice-VII. No obvious unit-cell volume discontinuity or strain anomaly of the high-pressure ice was observed up to the highest achieved pressures and temperatures. The volume-pressure-temperature data were fitted to a high-temperature Birch-Murnaghan equation of state formalism, yielding bulk modulus KT0 = 21.0(4) GPa, its first pressure derivative ′KT0 = 4.45(6), dK/dT = –0.009(4) GPa/K, and thermal expansion relation αT = 15(5) × 10–5 + 15(8) × 10–8 × (T – 300) K–1. The determined phase stability and thermoelastic properties of ice-VII can be used to model the inner structure of icy cosmic bodies. Combined with the thermoelastic properties of diamonds, we can reconstruct the isomeke P-T paths of ice-VII inclusions in diamond from depth, ofering clues on the water-rich regions in Earth’s deep mantle and the formation environments of those diamonds.

Keywords: High-pressure ice; diamond-anvil cell; thermal equation of state; icy planetary bodies; ice-VII diamond inclusions

Funding statement: X. Lai acknowledges support from the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities, China University of Geosciences (Wuhan) (no.162301202618) and National Natural Science Foundation of China grant (no. 42002041). F. Zhu acknowledges support from National Natural Science Foundation of China grant (no. 42102035). B. Chen acknowledges support from the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) (EAR-1555388 and EAR-1829273). This research used resources of the Advanced Photon Source (APS), a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science User Facility operated for the DOE Office of Science by Argonne National Laboratory under Contract No. DE-AC02-06CH11357. We acknowledge the support of GeoSoilEnviroCARS (Sector 13), which is supported by National Science Foundation(NSF)-Earth Sciences (EAR-1634415). The development of EHDAC was supported by Externally heated Diamond Anvil Cell Experimentation (EH-DANCE) project to B. Chen under Education Outreach and Infrastructure Development (EOID) project from COMPRES under NSF Cooperative Agreement EAR-1606856.

Acknowledgments

We thank Stella Chariton and Wenzhong Wang for the valuable discussion, editor Tschauner and two anonymous reviewers for their constructive comments. We also would like to thank Sinogeikin Stas (DAC Tools company) for the help with EHDAC development.

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Received: 2022-04-17
Accepted: 2022-09-21
Published Online: 2023-07-27
Published in Print: 2023-08-28

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https://doi.org/10.2138/am-2022-8554
Keywords for this article
High-pressure ice; diamond-anvil cell; thermal equation of state; icy planetary bodies; ice-VII diamond inclusions

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