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Low temperature heat capacity of the high-pressure-phase of SiO2, coesite, and calculation of theα-quartz-to-coesite equilibrium boundary

✍ Scribed by Tooru Atake; Noriko Inoue; Hitoshi Kawaji; Ken-ichiro Matsuzaka; Masaki Akaogi


Publisher
Elsevier Science
Year
2000
Tongue
English
Weight
179 KB
Volume
32
Category
Article
ISSN
0021-9614

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✦ Synopsis


The high-pressure-phase of SiO 2 , coesite, was synthesized from α-quartz under high pressure using a multi-anvil apparatus, and the heat capacity was measured by adiabatic calorimetry between T = (13 and 300) K. The smoothed values of the heat capacity were obtained from the primary data, and the thermodynamic functions of coesite were calculated. The heat capacity, enthalpy, entropy, and Gibbs energy at T = 298.15 K were (45.12 ± 0.26) J • K -1

• mol -1 , (6.771 ± 0.045) kJ • mol -1 , (39.28 ± 0.27) J • K -1

• mol -1 , and (-4.939 ± 0.035) kJ • mol -1 , respectively. The results were compared with the values reported previously. The equilibrium boundary of the α-quartz-to-coesite transition was also calculated. The d p/dT slope of the boundary was about 5.8 • 10 -4 GPa • K -1 .