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The stability of divalent Ge in silicate melts and its geochemical properties

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20/01/2020
Author
Mare, Eleanor
O'Neill, Hugh St. C.
Berry, Andrew
Glover, Chris
Keywords
Germanium
Silicate melt
Oxidation state
XANES
EXAFS
Partitioning
GE Environmental Sciences
QE Geology
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The oxidation state of Ge in silicate glasses, quenched from melts, was determined by X-ray absorption spectroscopy. The melts were equilibrated over the range of relative oxygen fugacities (fO2) from IW -3 to IW + 10, where IW is the iron-wüstite oxygen buffer in logarithmic units. X-ray absorption near edge structure (XANES) spectra of the samples show that over the range in fO2 from IW -2.8 to IW + 2.4, the Ge4+/(Ge2+ + Ge4+) ratio increases from 0.05 to 0.95. Modelling of extended X-ray absorption fine structure (EXAFS) gives the Ge2+–O bond length as 1.89 ± 0.03 Å. Olivine–melt partitioning experiments were also conducted, which show that Ge2+ is highly incompatible, with DGe2+ol/melt < 0.005, whereas DGe4+ol/melt is ∼ 1, where D is the partition coefficient. The geochemical properties of Ge during the magmatic differentiation of the Moon and other reduced rocky planets and achondrite parent bodies will therefore be entirely different to that familiar from terrestrial examples. In particular, the incompatible nature of Ge2+ may explain the anomalous enrichment of Ge in KREEP basalts.
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Mare , E , O'Neill , H S C , Berry , A & Glover , C 2020 , ' The stability of divalent Ge in silicate melts and its geochemical properties ' , Chemical Geology , vol. 532 , 119306 . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chemgeo.2019.119306
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Chemical Geology
Status
Peer reviewed
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chemgeo.2019.119306
ISSN
0009-2541
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Journal article
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Copyright © 2019 Published by Elsevier B.V. This work has been made available online in accordance with publisher policies or with permission. Permission for further reuse of this content should be sought from the publisher or the rights holder. This is the author created accepted manuscript following peer review and may differ slightly from the final published version. The final published version of this work is available at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chemgeo.2019.119306
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HON gratefully acknowledges funding from the Australian Research Council through grant FL130100066.
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http://hdl.handle.net/10023/20870

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