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Jul 1977
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1977nassp.370..787g&link_type=abstract
In NASA, Washington The Soviet-Am. Conf. on Cosmochem. of the Moon and Planets, Pt. 2 p 787-796 (SEE N78-12958 03-90)
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Chemical Fractionation, Phase Transformations, Solar Corona, Chondrites, Condensates, Minerals, Thermodynamics
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The sequence of condensation of minerals from a cooling gas of solar composition has been calculated from thermodynamic data over the pressure range 0.001-0.00001 atm, assuming that complete chemical equilibrium is maintained. The results suggest that the Ca-Al-rich inclusions Allende and other carbonaceous chondrites are aggregates of the highest temperature condensates. Complete condensation of these elements is followed, 100 deg later, by the onset of the crystallization of nickel-iron, forsterite and enstatite. Transport of Ca-Al-rich refractory condensates from one part of the nebula to another before the condensation of these lower-temperature phases may have been responsible for the refractory element fractionations between the different classes of chondrites and possibly for the inferred refractory element enrichment of the Moon. The temperature gap between the condensation temperatures of nickel-iron and forsterite increases with increasing total pressure. Because pressure and temperature probably increased with decreasing heliocentric distance in the solar nebula, Mercury may have accreted from a condensate assemblage having a higher metal/silicate ratio than Venus or Earth which may, in turn, have formed from less oxidized material than Mars.
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