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Chou I-Ming

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Techniques for determining pressure in the hydrothermal diamond- anvil cell: behavior and identification of ice polymorphs (I, III, V, VI)

For H2O densities > 1.0 g/cm3, a determination of the ice melting temperature provides the density information required to calculate the P-T path that the sample in a hydrothermal diamond-anvil cell follows when the sample is heated isochorically. The principal difficulty is the identification of the polymorph because of metastable behavior of ices in the H2O system. Usually, an accurate identification of the liquidus ice phase can be made without analytical instrumentation and requires only careful observations. -Authors

American Mineralogist

The assemblage WO2 + H2O as a steady-state hydrogen source in moderately reduced hydrothermal experiments

The values of fH2 for the assemblage WO2 + WO2.72 + H2O (designated as WO) have been measured in sealed Au capsules under an external pressure of 2 kbar CH4 and between 650 and 800??C using Ag-AgBr-HBr sensors of fH2. The fH2 values obtained can be represented by the equation log(fWOH2)2kbar,T(??0.06) = (-1924.9 ??(T,K) + 4.06 and are found to be slightly greater than those associated with the previously calibrated C-CH4 buffer. -from Authors

American Mineralogist