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Post-stishovite (CaCl₂-type)

SiO2

second-order Birch-Murnaghan · Original · 2003

V₀
46.31
ų
Unit cell
K₀
334
GPa
Unknown
K′
4
dimensionless

Volume (V₀)

Value Unit Basis Z
46.31 ų Unit cell

Reported value and unit are preserved as extracted. Z (formula units per cell) is not stored yet, so molar ↔ ų/f.u. conversion is not applied automatically.

Composition

OxideMolar
SiO21

Formula: SiO2

Conditions & method

Tref
Pref
Structure
CaCl2-type SiO2
Method
experiment (XRD / DAC / multianvil compression)
powder X-ray diffraction in diamond anvil cell, laser annealing, least-squares fit (EosFit v5.2)
Sample
combined data sets up to ~135 GPa, pressures above ~60 GPa from Pt EoS (Holmes et al. 1989)

Source

Paper
Equation of state of stishovite to lower mantle pressures
Authors
D. Andrault; R. J. Angel; J. L. Mosenfelder; Tristan Le Bihan
DOI
10.2138/am-2003-2-307
Year
2003
Journal
American Mineralogist
Origin
Original (measured or fitted in the source paper)

Evidence from the paper

We obtain K0 = 334(7) GPa and V0 = 46.31(15) Å3 for the CaCl2 phase, with a first pressure derivative fixed to K'0 = 4. We refined a CaCl2 form V0 value slightly lower than that of stishovite.

Additional notes

note
CaCl2 form observed above ~60 GPa; f-F plot indicates K'0 very close to 4 and the CaCl2 form slightly more compressible than stishovite above the transition