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How do diamonds grow in metal melt together with silicate minerals? An experimental study of diamond morphology
Sobolev Institute of Geology and Mineralogy SB RAS, Koptyuga Ave.
3, Novosibirsk, 630090, Russia
Valery Sonin
Sobolev Institute of Geology and Mineralogy SB RAS, Koptyuga Ave.
3, Novosibirsk, 630090, Russia
Jean-Marie Dereppe
University of Louvain, Place des Sciences 2, bte L6.06.01 à 1348 Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
Egor Zhimulev
Sobolev Institute of Geology and Mineralogy SB RAS, Koptyuga Ave.
3, Novosibirsk, 630090, Russia
Anatoly Chepurov
Sobolev Institute of Geology and Mineralogy SB RAS, Koptyuga Ave.
3, Novosibirsk, 630090, Russia
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Short summary
The paper presents experimental results on the growth of diamonds in Fe–Ni melt together with silicate minerals at high P–T. The morphology of the grown diamonds was studied, as well as the chemical composition of the synthetic silicates. This work builds on our preliminary experimental work presented in Zhimulev et al. (2012), which was an experimental evidence to confirm the hypothesis of crystallization of diamonds from metallic liquids explained in a pioneer paper by Smith et al. (2016).
The paper presents experimental results on the growth of diamonds in Fe–Ni melt together with...
