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Post-perovskite

MgSiO3

Birch-Murnaghan (order unspecified) · Original · 2006

V₀
124.5
ų
Unit cell
K₀
577
GPa
Isothermal
K′
4
dimensionless

Volume (V₀)

Value Unit Basis Z
124.5 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
MgO1
SiO21

Formula: MgSiO3

Conditions & method

Tref
300 K
Pref
110 GPa
Structure
post-perovskite (CaIrO3-type, Cmcm)
Method
experiment (XRD / DAC / multianvil compression)
synchrotron powder X-ray diffraction, laser-heated diamond anvil cell, 116-144 GPa
Sample
synthesized from synthetic MgSiO3 enstatite in laser-heated DAC

Source

Paper
Equation of state of CaIrO3-type MgSiO3 up to 144 GPa
Authors
Shigeaki Ono
DOI
10.2138/am.2006.2118
Year
2006
Journal
American Mineralogist
Origin
Original (measured or fitted in the source paper)

Evidence from the paper

we also calculated the isothermal bulk modulus and volume using Anderson's gold standard (Anderson et al. 1989) at 110 GPa... Refinement yielded the equation-of-state parameters K110GPa = 577(20) GPa and V110GPa = 124.50(13) Å3 when the first pressure derivative of the bulk modulus was fixed at 4.

Additional notes

pressure standard
Au, Anderson et al. (1989)
reference pressure rationale
110 GPa corresponds to the transition pressure of CaIrO3-type MgSiO3