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GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA
Volume 121, Issue -, Pages 15-28Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.gca.2013.07.007
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- Carnegie Institution of Washington
- NERC fellowship [NE/D008913]
- ClerVolc program (which is Laboratory of Excellence ClerVolc) [60]
- Natural Research Council [GT59801ES, GR3/10912, NER/A/S/2003/00378]
- Natural Environment Research Council [NER/A/S/2003/00378] Funding Source: researchfish
- Directorate For Geosciences
- Division Of Earth Sciences [1212754] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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Nitrogen is the dominant gas in Earth atmosphere, but its behavior during the Earth' differentiation is poorly known. To aid in identifying the main reservoirs of nitrogen in the Earth, nitrogen solubility was determined experimentally in a mixture of molten CI-chondrite model composition and (Fe, Ni) metal alloy liquid. Experiments were performed in a laser-heated diamond-anvil cell at pressures to 18 GPa and temperatures to 2850 +/- 200 K. Multi-anvil experiments were also performed at 5 and 10 GPa and 2390 +/- 50 K. The nitrogen content increases with pressure in both metal and silicate reservoirs. It also increases with the iron content of the (Fe, Ni) alloy. Sieverts' formalism successfully describes the nitrogen solubility in metals up to 18 GPa. Henry's law applies to nitrogen-saturated silicate melts up to 4-5 GPa. Independently of these solubility models, it is shown that the partition coefficient of nitrogen between metal and silicate melts changes from almost 10(4) at ambient pressure to about 10-20 for pressures higher than 1 GPa. The pressure-dependence of the nitrogen partitioning can explain the recently suggested depletion of nitrogen relative to other volatiles in the bulk silicate Earth. (c) 2013 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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