Abstracts for the 1996 NSLS Activity Report

Projects based on data collected between October 1,1995 and September 30, 1996

In-situ Measurement of the Rheology of Silicate Garnets at High Pressure, Junichi Ando, Jiuhua Chen, Donald J. Weidner Yujun Wu (CHiPR at  Stony Brook), and Yanbin Wang (CARS, APS)

In-situ Equation of State Measurements of Antigorite, Kunal Bose, Alexandra Navrotsky (CHiPR at Princeton), Paul J. Schields, Jiuhua Chen and Donald J. Weidner (CHiPR at Stony Brook)

Rheology of Dry and Hydrous Phases of the a and b Forms of (Mg,Fe)2SiO4, Jiuhua Chen, Toru Inoue, Yujun Wu, Donald J. Weidner and Michael T. Vaughan (CHiPR at  Stony Brook)

Structural Studies of Ag2SO4 and TlX (X = Cl, Br, I) by In-Situ ED-XRD to 6GPa and 550° C, Q. Chen and R. A. Secco, (U. West. Ont.), E. A. Secco, (St. Francis Xavier U.), Jiuhua Chen, Michael T. Vaughan, Ganglin Chen, Jianzhong Zhang, and Donald J. Weidner (CHiPR at  Stony Brook).

Elasticity of Single Crystal MgO from Simultaneous X-ray and Ultrasonic Measurements to 9 GPa and 1500 K in a Multi-Anvil Apparatus, Ganglin Chen, Yegor D. Sinelnikov, Joseph Cooke, Donald J. Weidner and Robert C. Liebermann (CHiPR at Stony Brook).

Pressure Induced Amorphization in Zirconium Tungstate ZrW2O8, Jiuhua Chen, John B. Parise, Rui Li (CHiPR at  Stony Brook) and A. W. Sleight (OSU). 1996

Elasticity of Polycrystalline MgSiO3-Majorite from Simultaneous X-ray and Ultrasonic Measurements to 9 GPa and 1000 K in a Multi-Anvil Apparatus, Gabriel D. Gwanmesia (Delaware St. U.), Ganglin Chen, Yegor D. Sinelnikov, Joseph Cooke, Lucy Flesch, Michael T. Vaughan and Robert C. Liebermann (CHiPR at  Stony Brook)

Rheological Study of Hydrous g-Phase Using in situ X-ray Diffraction, Toru Inoue, Jiuhua Chen, Yujun Wu, Donald J. Weidner and Michael T. Vaughan (CHiPR at  Stony Brook)

Elasticity of Polycrystalline b-Mg2SiO4 from Simultaneous X-ray and Ultrasonic Measurements to 7 GPa and 900 K in a Multi-Anvil Apparatus, Baosheng Li, Jun Liu, Lucy Flesch (CHiPR at  Stony Brook), Gabriel D. Gwanmesia (Delaware St. U.), Jiuhua Chen and Robert C. Liebermann (CHiPR at  Stony Brook).

Thermal Equation of State of Stishovite, Jun Liu, Jianzhong Zhang, Donald J. Weidner, Lucy Flesch, Ganglin Chen, Baosheng Li and Robert C. Liebermann (CHiPR at Stony Brook).

Simultaneous X-Ray and Acoustic Measurements of Equations of State of Solids at High Pressures and Temperatures in Multi-Anvil Apparatus, Robert C. Liebermann, Ganglin Chen, Baosheng Li, Gabriel D. Gwanmesia, Joseph Cooke, Lucy Flesch, Jun Liu, Yegor D. Sinelnikov, Michael T. Vaughan, Jiuhua Chen, Jianzhong Zhang, Yanbin Wang and Donald J. Weidner (CHiPR at  Stony Brook). 1996

Elasticity of Ca(Ti,Si)O3 Perovskite, Yegor D. Sinelnikov, Jianzhong Zhang, and Robert C. Liebermann (CHiPR at  Stony Brook). 1996

Rheology of Cubic Boron Nitride at High Temperatures and Pressures, Jeffrey S. Sweeney, Jiuhua Chen, Donald J. Weidner, Michael T. Vaughan (CHiPR at  Stony Brook). 1996

Phase Relations and Equations of State for High-Pressure Phases of Ferrosilite and Enstatite, Michael T. Vaughan, Donald H. Lindsley, and Yegor D.. Sinelnikov (CHiPR at  Stony Brook).

T-CUP: A New High-Pressure Apparatus for X-Ray Studies - Continued, Michael T. Vaughan, Donald J. Weidner, and Jiuhua Chen (CHiPR at  Stony Brook). 

A New Anvil Geometry for SAM-85 for High P, T X-ray Studies, Yanbin Wang, Donald J. Weidner, Michael T. Vaughan (CHiPR at  Stony Brook), and Ivan C. Getting (CHiPR, U. Colorado).

Rheology Study of Py60Mj40 Garnet at High Pressure and High Temperature, Yujun Wu, Donald J. Weidner, Jiuhua Chen, Gabriel D. Gwanmesia, and Michael T. Vaughan (CHiPR at  Stony Brook). 

Equation of State of Calcite-Structure Carbonates, Jianzhong Zhang and Richard J. Reeder (CHiPR at  Stony Brook).

Effect of Silicon Incorporation in Iron: Equation of State and Phase Transition, Jianzhong Zhang (CHiPR at  Stony Brook) and Francois Guyot (U. of Paris).