REDUCTION EXPERIMENT OF FeO-BEARING AMORPHOUS SILICATE: APPLICATION TO ORIGIN OF METALLIC IRON IN GEMS
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Abstract
Glass with embedded metal and sulfides (GEMS) are amorphous silicates included in anhydrous interplanetary dust particles (IDPs) and can provide information about material evolution in our early solar system. Several formation processes for GEMS have been proposed so far, but these theories are still being debated. To investigate a possible GEMS origin by reduction of interstellar silicates, we synthesized amorphous silicates with a mean GEMS composition and performed heating experiments in a reducing atmosphere. FeO-bearing amorphous silicates were heated at 923 K and 973 K for 3 hr, and at 1023 K for 1-48 hr at ambient pressure in a reducing atmosphere. Fe grains formed at the interface between the silicate and the reducing gas through a reduction. In contrast, TEM observations of natural GEMS show that metallic grains are uniformly embedded in amorphous silicates. Therefore, the present study suggests that metallic inclusions in GEMS could not form as reduction products and that other formation process such as condensation or irradiation are more likely.
Journal
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- The Astrophysical Journal
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The Astrophysical Journal 792 (2), 2014-09-10
American Astronomical Society
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- CRID
- 1050845760726994688
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- NII Article ID
- 120005477200
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- NII Book ID
- AA00553242
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- ISSN
- 0004637X
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- HANDLE
- 2433/189844
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- Text Lang
- en
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- Article Type
- journal article
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- Data Source
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- IRDB
- CiNii Articles