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American Mineralogist; August 2005; v. 90; no. 8-9; p. 1278-1283; DOI: 10.2138/am.2005.1849
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Direct observation of spinodal decomposition in the magnetite-hercynite system by susceptibility measurements and transmission electron microscopy

Ute Golla-Schindler1,*, Hugh St.C. O‘Neill2 and Andrew Putnis1

1 Institute of Mineralogy, University of Münster, Corrensstrasse 24, 48149 Münster, Germany
2 Research School of Earth Sciences, Australian National University, Canberra ACT 0200, Australia

Correspondence: * E-mail: golla{at}nwz.uni-muenster.de

The magnetic susceptibility and Curie temperatures Tc have been investigated for a series of synthetic samples with solid-solution compositions ranging from pure magnetite (Fe3O4) to hercynite (FeAl2O4). The determined Tc can be fitted by a straight line, which also fits the theoretical values for these end-members. With increasing hercynite concentration, susceptibility curves for one heating and cooling cycle become irreversible, indicating changes in the structural state of the samples during annealing. These changes occur in specific temperature ranges for each composition. For a sample of composition Mag40Hec60, irreversible changes occurring between about 200 and 300 °C are likely due to changes in the cation distribution, whereas above 300 °C, compositional fluctuations due to spinodal decomposition are evident. The exsolution mechanism has been investigated using energyfiltered transmission electron microscopy, which has allowed direct imaging of the compositional fluctuations consistent with the theoretical predictions of spinodal decomposition.






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