Morphological instability of aqueous dissolution of silicate glasses and minerals [Nonlinear dynamics of aqueous dissolution of silicate glasses and minerals: Morphological instability]
- Sandia National Lab. (SNL-NM), Albuquerque, NM (United States)
- Univ. of Bonn, Bonn (Germany)
Understanding of aqueous dissolution of silicate glasses and minerals is of great importance to both Earth science and materials science. Silicate dissolution exhibits complex temporal evolution and spatial pattern formations. Recently, we showed how observed complexity could emerge from a simple self-organizational mechanism: dissolution of the silica framework in a material could be catalyzed by the cations released from the reaction itself. This mechanism enables us to systematically predict many key features of a silicate dissolution process including the occurrence of a sharp corrosion front (vs. a leached surface layer), oscillatory dissolution and multiple stages of the alteration process (e.g., an alteration rate resumption at a late stage of glass dissolution). Here, through a linear stability analysis, we show that this same mechanism can also lead to morphological instability of an alteration front, which, in combination with oscillatory dissolution, can potentially lead to a whole suite of patterning phenomena, as observed on archaeological glass samples, including wavy dissolution fronts, growth rings, incoherent bandings of alteration products, and corrosion pitting. Here, the result thus further demonstrates the importance of the proposed self-accelerating mechanism in silicate material degradation.
- Research Organization:
- Sandia National Lab. (SNL-NM), Albuquerque, NM (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA)
- Grant/Contract Number:
- AC04-94AL85000
- OSTI ID:
- 1478405
- Report Number(s):
- SAND-2018-0206J; 659823
- Journal Information:
- npj Materials Degradation, Vol. 2, Issue 1; ISSN 2397-2106
- Publisher:
- SpringerCopyright Statement
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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