Sulfidation of Mg-rich olivine and the stability of niningerite in enstatite chondrites

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Chemical Reactions, Chondrites, Enstatite, Magnesium Compounds, Olivine, Graphite, Iron Compounds, Nickel Compounds, Phase Transformations, Meteorites, Enstatites, E Chondrites, Stony Meteorites, Niningertite, Stability, Magnesium, Olivine, Mineralogy, Laboratory Studies, Origin, Chemistry, Sulfur, Procedure, Experiments, Phases, Partitioning, Calculations, Quenching, Texture, Nickel, Formation, Crystallization, Accretion, Metamorphism

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When Mg-rich olivine is heated with excess (Fe,Ni) monosulfide and graphite in a sealed silica vessel at 1200 C, it is sulfidized to niningerite and clinoenstatite. The quenched experimental assemblage of clinoenstatite + troilite + niningerite + alloy + silicide + graphite is equivalent to the reduced mineral assemblage of EH enstatite chondrites. The present phase relations suggest that niningerite in EH chondrites could have been produced by sulfidation of Mg-rich silicates during either accretion or metamorphism at low CO fugacities; niningerite, however, is unstable under the anticipated conditions of recrystallization of EL enstatite chondrites.

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