Articles | Volume 32, issue 1
https://doi.org/10.5194/ejm-32-167-2020
https://doi.org/10.5194/ejm-32-167-2020
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30 Jan 2020
Letter |  | 30 Jan 2020

Comment on “Water decreases displacive phase transition temperature in alkali feldspar” by Liu et al. (2018)

Herbert Kroll and Peter Schmid-Beurmann

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Feldspars are the most abundant minerals in the Earth's crust. Their structural behaviour is complicated because order/disorder reactions, phase transitions, and unmixing processes interact. Liu et al. (2018) claim that the water content in the nominally dry feldspars has a profound influence on the transformation behaviour. Their arguments, however, are not sound. We point to a number of errors and omissions.