Oxygen diffusion in magnetite

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The diffusion rate of oxygen in magnetite (Fe3O4) has been measured under hydrothermal conditions between 800° and 500°C at 1000 bars pressure, and yields the Arrhenius relation: D = 3.5 × 10-6 exp(-45,000/RT) kcal/g-atom O. The diffusion rate was found to be the same, within the estimated uncertainty of a factor of 2, for measurements at 100, 1000, and 2000 bars (20-200 MPa) water pressure, and for oxygen fugacities buffered by magnetite-hematite and approximately Ni-NiO. The activation energy and diffusion mechanism probably change to that given by Castle and Surman [10] at temperatures below 460°C. The oxygen diffusion rate in magnetite is between those of quartz and hornblende. Closure temperatures fall in the range 380°C for 0.1 mm radius grains cooling at 1°C/m.y. to 675°C for 1 mm radius and cooling at 1000°C/m.y. if the present data are used, but will be lower for the fine grain sizes and slow cooling rates if the Castle and Surman data are used.

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