Development of a Piston Cylinder Apparatus

该奖项为组装提供了支持， 被称为活塞缸装置，用于研究 材料在高压和高温下（高达50帕 2000度Kelvin）。 还为下列活动提供资金： 从俄亥俄州到剑桥运送2000吨的压力机， 马萨诸塞州，由委托人在此注册成立 一个实验性的高压系统的调查员。 的 新闻被捐赠给马萨诸塞州研究所 通用电气超级磨料部门的技术， 沃辛顿，俄亥俄州。 升级后的高压系统将用于 目的是定义固熔化学的实验 与岩浆形成有关的反应 地球的下地壳和上地幔，并确定 这些反应的温度和压力条件。

This award provides support for the assembly of what is known as a piston-cylinder apparatus used for the study of materials at high pressures and temperatures (up to 50 kilobars and 2000 degrees Kelvin). Funds are also provided for the shipping of a 2000-ton press from Ohio to Cambridge, Massachusetts where it will be incorporated by the Principal Investigator into an experimental high-pressure system. The press is being donated to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology by the General Electric Superabrasive Division in Worthington, Ohio. The upgraded high-pressure systems will be used in experiments whose purpose is to define solid-melt chemical reactions that are relevant to the formation of magmas in the earth's lower crust and upper mantle, and to determine the temperature and pressure conditions of these reactions.