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Thermal expansion of andalusite and sillimanite at ambient pressure: a powder X-ray diffraction study up to 1000°C

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 July 2018

X. Hu ,
X. Liu ,
Q. He ,
H. Wang ,
S. Qin ,
L. Ren ,
C. M. Wu  and
L. Chang
X. Hu
Affiliation:
The Key Laboratory of Orogenic Belts and Crustal Evolution, Ministry of Education of China, Beijing 100871, China School of Earth and Space Sciences, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
X. Liu*
Affiliation:
The Key Laboratory of Orogenic Belts and Crustal Evolution, Ministry of Education of China, Beijing 100871, China School of Earth and Space Sciences, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
Q. He
Affiliation:
The Key Laboratory of Orogenic Belts and Crustal Evolution, Ministry of Education of China, Beijing 100871, China School of Earth and Space Sciences, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
H. Wang
Affiliation:
The Key Laboratory of Orogenic Belts and Crustal Evolution, Ministry of Education of China, Beijing 100871, China School of Earth and Space Sciences, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
S. Qin
Affiliation:
The Key Laboratory of Orogenic Belts and Crustal Evolution, Ministry of Education of China, Beijing 100871, China School of Earth and Space Sciences, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
L. Ren
Affiliation:
Institute of Geology, Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences, Beijing 100037, China
C. M. Wu
Affiliation:
College of Earth Science, the Graduate School, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
L. Chang
Affiliation:
The Key Laboratory of Orogenic Belts and Crustal Evolution, Ministry of Education of China, Beijing 100871, China School of Earth and Space Sciences, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
*
*E-mail: xi.liu@pku.edu.cn
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Abstract

The unit-cell parameters of andalusite and sillimanite have been measured by high-T powder X-ray diffraction up to 1000°C at ambient pressure. Within the temperature range investigated, all the unit-cell parameters varied smoothly, indicating no phase transition. The volume-temperature data were fitted with a polynomial expression for the thermal expansion coefficient (αT = a0 + a1T + a2T-2). yielding a0 = 2.55(2) × 10–5K–1, al = 0 and a2 = 0 for andalusite, and a0 = 1.40(4) × 10–5K–1a1 = 7.1(8) × 10–9K–2 and a2 = 0 for sillimanite. Using the new thermal expansion data determined in the present study and compressional data from the literature, the P-T phase relations of the kyanite-andalusite-sillimanite system were calculated thermodynamically, with the invariant point located at ∼523°C and 3.93 kbar.

Keywords

andalusitehigh temperaturepowder X-ray diffractionsillimanitethermal expansion
Type
CNMNC Newsletter 8
Information
Mineralogical Magazine , Volume 75 , Issue 2 , April 2011 , pp. 363 - 374
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Copyright © The Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland 2011

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