Melting of forsterite and spinel, with implications for the glass transition of Mg2SiO4 liquid

Details Melting of forsterite and spinel, with implications for the glass transition of Mg2SiO4 liquid Melting of forsterite and spinel, with implications for the glass transition of Mg2SiO4 liquid

Aug 1993

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1993georl..20.1675r&link_type=abstract

Geophysical Research Letters (ISSN 0094-8276), vol. 20, no. 16, p. 1675-1678.

Physics

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Forsterite, Glass Transition Temperature, Melting Points, Molten Salts, Spinel, Entropy, Magnesium Compounds, Silicates, Thermal Analysis

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As determined by quantitative differential thermal analysis, the enthalpies of fusion of forsterite and spinel, are Delta-H(f) = 142 +/- 14 and 107 +/- 11 kJ/mol at 2174 and 2408 K, respectively. Significant premelting has been observed for forsterite, beginning about 100 K below the congruent melting point. When heated in graphite crucibles, forsterite reacts with carbon and the products of reaction vaporize with an overall enthalpy of reaction of the order of 1600 kJ/mol. The configurational entropy of Mg2SiO4 liquid decreases so rapidly with decreasing temperature that it would be almost zero at its nominal glass-transition temperature as estimated by extrapolating viscosity data for magnesium aluminosilicate melts. Extreme cooling rates are thus needed in order to quench actual Mg2SiO4 glasses having significant configurational entropies.

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