CRYSTALLIZATION EXPERIMENTS OF SiO{sub 2}-RICH AMORPHOUS SILICATE: APPLICATION TO SiO{sub 2}-RICH CIRCUMSTELLAR DUST AND GEMS
- Department of Earth and Space Science, Graduate School of Science, Osaka University, 1-1 Machikaneyama, Toyonaka, Osaka 560-0043 (Japan)
- Department of Interdisciplinary Environment, Graduate School of Human and Environmental Studies, Kyoto University, Yoshida-Nihonmatsu, Sakyo, Kyoto 606-8501 (Japan)
Crystallization experiments of relatively SiO{sub 2}-rich amorphous silicates using the mean chemical composition of the silicate portions in GEMS (glass with embedded metal and sulfide), which is a major component in anhydrous interplanetary dust particles and a primitive material of the early solar system, were performed to understand the presence of crystalline silica around young stars and crystallization in GEMS. Olivine crystallized at {approx}900-1400 K, probably prior to pyroxene. Three different polymorphs of pyroxene, protopyroxene, orthopyroxene, and clinopyroxene, were identified at {>=}1000 K. Cristobalite, which is one of the silica polymorphs, crystallized only at high temperatures ({>=}1500 K). We obtained time-temperature-transformation (TTT) crystallization diagrams. These results suggest that crystallization of a silica polymorph is kinetically difficult in a day or so at {approx}900-1400 K even for the SiO{sub 2}-saturated composition, while the crystallization might be possible after metastable olivine crystallization if duration is long enough. The TTT diagram also indicates that the GEMS cooling timescale was {approx}10{sup 5} s if they condensed at 1000 K as amorphous silicates and annealed during cooling after the condensation.
- OSTI ID:
- 22039387
- Journal Information:
- Astrophysical Journal, Vol. 753, Issue 2; Other Information: Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); ISSN 0004-637X
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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