Dynamics of Oxidation of a Fe2+-Bearing Aluminosilicate (Basaltic) Melt

Autor: J. K. Richard Weber, John B. Fanselow, David B. Poker, Dennis R. Merkley, Reid F. Cooper
Rok vydání: 1996
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Zdroj: Science (New York, N.Y.). 274(5290)
ISSN: 1095-9203
Popis: Rutherford backscattering spectroscopy (RBS) and microscopy demonstrate that the approximately 1400deg;C oxidation of levitated droplets of a natural Fe2+-bearing aluminosilicate (basalt) melt occurs by chemical diffusion of Fe2+ and Ca2+ to the free surface of the droplet; internal oxidation of the melt results from the required counterflux of electron holes. Diffusion of an oxygen species is not required. Oxidation causes the droplets to go subsolidus; magnetite (Fe3O4) forms at the oxidation-solidification front with a morphology suggestive of a Liesegang-band nucleation process.
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