Temperature-dependent thermal expansivities of silicate melts: The system anorthite-diopside

Journal Article · Sat Feb 01 04:00:00 EST 1992 · Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta; (United States)

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/0016-7037(92)90090-6· OSTI ID:5263035

Knoche, R; Dingwell, D B; Webb, S L ^[1]

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1. Univ. Bayreuth (West Germany)

The temperature-dependent thermal expansivities of melts along the join anorthite-diopside have been determined on glassy and liquid samples using a combination of calorimetry, dilatometry, and Pt double bob Archimedean densitometry. Supercooled liquid volumes and molar thermal expansivities were determined using scanning calorimetric and dilatometric measurements of properties in the glass region and their behavior at the glass transition. The extraction of low-temperature liquid molar expansivities from dilatometry/calorimetry is based on an assumed equivalence of the relaxation of volume and enthalpy at the glass transition using a method developed and tested by Webb et al. (1992). This method corrects for transient effects at the glass transition which can lead to serious overestimates of liquid thermal expansivity from peak' values. Superliquidus volumes were determined using double Pt bob Archimedean densitometry at temperatures up to 1,650C. The resulting data for liquid volumes near glass transition temperatures (810-920C) and at superliquidus temperatures (1,400-1,650C) are combined to yield thermal expansivities over the entire supercooled and stable liquid range. The molar expansivities are, in general, temperature dependent. The temperature-dependence of thermal expansivity increases from anorthite to diopside composition. The thermal expansivity of anorthite is essentially temperature independent, whereas that of diopside decreases by {congruent} 50% between 800 and 1,500C, with the consequence that the thermal expansivities of the liquids in the anorthite-diopside system converge at high temperature.

• OSTI ID: 5263035
• Journal Information: Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta; (United States), Journal Name: Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta; (United States) Vol. 56:2; ISSN GCACA; ISSN 0016-7037
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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