Density of Fe‐Ni‐C Liquids at High Pressures and Implications for Liquid Cores of Earth and the Moon
Density of Fe‐Ni‐C Liquids at High Pressures and Implications for Liquid Cores of Earth and the Moon
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高压下 Fe-Ni-C 液体的密度及其对地球和月球液体核心的影响
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10.1029/2020jb021089
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2021
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Chen, Bin
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Zhu, Feng;Lai, Xiaojing;Wang, Jianwei;Amulele, George;Kono, Yoshio;Shen, Guoyin;Jing, Zhicheng;Manghnani, Murli H.;Williams, Quentin;Chen, Bin
The presence of light elements in the metallic cores of the Earth, the Moon, and other rocky planetary bodies has been widely proposed. Carbon is among the top candidates in light of its high cosmic abundance, siderophile nature, and ubiquity in iron meteorites. It is, however, still controversial whether carbon‐rich core compositional models can account for the seismic velocity observations within the Earth and lunar cores. Here, we report the density and elasticity of Fe90Ni10‐3 wt.% C and Fe90Ni10‐5 wt.% C liquid alloys using synchrotron‐based X‐ray absorption experiments and first‐principles molecular dynamics simulations. Our results show that alloying of 3 wt.% and 5 wt.% C lowers the density of Fe90Ni10liquid by ∼2.9–3.1% at 2 GPa, and ∼3.4–3.6% at 9 GPa. More intriguingly, our experiments and simulations both demonstrate that the bulk moduli of the Fe‐Ni‐C liquids are similar to or slightly higher than those of Fe‐Ni liquids. Thus, the calculated compressional velocities (vp) of Fe‐Ni‐C liquids are higher than that of pure Fe‐Ni alloy, promoting carbon as a possible candidate to explain the elevatedvpin the Earth's outer core. However, the values and slopes of both density andvpof the studied two Fe‐Ni‐C liquids do not match the outer core seismic models, suggesting that carbon may not be the sole principal light element in Earth's outer core. The highvpof Fe‐Ni‐C liquids does not match the presumptivevpof the lunar outer core well, indicating that carbon is less likely to be its dominant light element.
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