Experiments quantifying elemental and isotopic fractionations during evaporation of CAI-like melts in low-pressure hydrogen and in vacuum: Constraints on thermal processing of CAIs in the protoplanetary disk
Experiments quantifying elemental and isotopic fractionations during evaporation of CAI-like melts in low-pressure hydrogen and in vacuum: Constraints on thermal processing of CAIs in the protoplanetary disk
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量化低压氢气和真空中 CAI 类熔体蒸发过程中元素和同位素分馏的实验:原行星盘中 CAI 热处理的限制
DOI:
10.1016/j.gca.2020.09.005
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发表时间:
2021
影响因子:
5
通讯作者:
Mendybaev R
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作者:
Mendybaev R
It is widely believed that the precursors of coarse-grained CAIs in chondrites are solar nebula condensates that were later reheated and melted to a high degree. Such melting under low-pressure conditions is expected to result in evaporation of moderately volatile magnesium and silicon and their mass-dependent isotopic fractionation. The evaporation of silicate melts has been extensively studied in vacuum laboratory experiments and a large experimental database on chemical and isotopic fractionations now exists. Nevertheless, it remains unclear if vacuum evaporation of CAI-like melts adequately describes the evaporation in the hydrogen-rich gas of the solar nebula. Here we report the results of a detailed experimental study on evaporation of a such melt at 1600 °C in both vacuum and low-pressure hydrogen gas, using 1.5- and 2.5-mm diameter samples. The experiments show that although at 2 × 10−4bar H2magnesium and silicon evaporate ∼2.8 times faster than at 2 × 10−5bar H2and ∼45 times faster than in vacuum, their relative evaporation rates and isotopic fractionation factors remain the same. This means that the chemical and isotopic evolutions of all evaporation residues plot along a single evaporation trajectory regardless of experimental conditions (vacuum or low-PH2) and sample size. The independence of chemical and isotopic evaporation trajectories on PH2of the surrounding gas imply that the existing extensive experimental database on vacuum evaporation of CAI-like materials can be safely used to model the evaporation under solar nebula conditions, taking into account the dependence of evaporation kinetics on PH2.The experimental data suggest that it would take less than 25 min at 1600 °C to evaporate 15–50% of magnesium and 5–20% of silicon from a 2.5-mm diameter sample in a solar nebula with PH2∼2 × 10−4bar and to enrich the residual melt in heavy magnesium and silicon isotopes up to δ25Mg ∼5–10‰ and δ29Si ∼2–4‰. The expected chemical and isotopic features are compatible to those typically observed in coarse-grained Type A and B CAIs. Evaporation for ∼1 h will produce δ25Mg ∼30–35‰ and δ29Si ∼10–15‰, close to the values in highly fractionated Type F and FUN CAIs. These very short timescales suggest melting and evaporation of CAI precursors in very short dynamic heating events. The experimental results reported here provide a stringent test of proposed astrophysical models for the origin and evolution of CAIs.
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影响因子:
5
作者:
Grossman, L.;Simon, S. B.;Mayeda, T. K.
通讯作者:
Mayeda, T. K.
影响因子:
5
作者:
L. Grossman;D. Ebel;S. Simon;A. Davis;F. Richter;N. Parsad
通讯作者:
N. Parsad
DOI:
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发表时间:
2003
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影响因子:
--
作者:
G. MacPherson
通讯作者:
G. MacPherson
影响因子:
5.2
作者:
C. Sonett
通讯作者:
C. Sonett
影响因子:
64.8
作者:
A. Hashimoto
通讯作者:
A. Hashimoto