Element partitioning at reaction interfaces in a reactive diffusion setting

Author(s)
Rainer Abart, Jiri Svoboda, Petr Jeřabek, Erwin Povoden-Karadenitz, Gerlinde Habler
Abstract

We report on experimental layer growth of magnesio aluminate spinel (MgAl2O4) at periclase (MgO) corundum (Al2O3) interfaces. Periclase and corundum were contacted and annealed at 1350°C and ambient pressure for 5 to 160 hours. Along the contact a spinel layer formed showing parabolic growth. The spinel exhibits monotonic decrease in Al content from the spinel-corundum interface to the spinel-periclase interface. Whereas the Al-content of spinel is constantly about one mole percent above the equilibrium composition at the spinel-periclase interface, the Al-content of spinel increases with run duration approaching but never attaining local equilibrium at the spinel-corundum interface. Based on these experimental data the kinetic parameters describing long-range diffusion and interface motion in a thermodynamic model are calibrated.

Organisation(s)
Department of Lithospheric Research
External organisation(s)
Czech Academy of Sciences, Charles University Prague, Technische Universität Wien
Pages
353-354
No. of pages
2
Publication date
2015
Peer reviewed
Yes
Austrian Fields of Science 2012
105120 Petrology
Keywords
ASJC Scopus subject areas
General Chemical Engineering, Inorganic Chemistry, Materials Chemistry, Metals and Alloys
Portal url
https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/en/publications/b71a3de4-a978-43d4-842d-2258485e8541