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Bridgmanite

MgSiO3

Birch-Murnaghan (order unspecified) · Cited · 2004

V₀
Unknown basis
K₀
259
GPa
Isothermal
K′
3.700
dimensionless

Volume (V₀)

Value Unit Basis Z
Unknown basis

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
Pref
Structure
orthorhombic perovskite (Pbnm/Pnma)
Method
experiment (XRD / DAC / multianvil compression)
static compression experiments (literature)
Sample

Source

Paper
Effect of aluminium on the compressibility of silicate perovskite
Authors
I. M. Daniel; Jay D. Bass; G. Fiquet; Hervé Cardon; Jianzhong Zhang; Michael Hanfland
DOI
10.1029/2004gl020213
Year
2004
Journal
Geophysical Research Letters
Origin
Cited (quoted from earlier work)

Evidence from the paper

From static compression experiments, the value of the isothermal bulk modulus K0 is 253(9) GPa if the first pressure derivative K'_0 is fixed to 4, and 259 GPa with K'_0 adjusted to 3.7.