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Terasaki et al. 2002
Terasaki, H., Kato, T., Urakawa, S., Funakoshi, K., Sato, K., Suzuki, A. and Okada, T. (2002). Viscosity change and structural transition of Molten Fe at 5 GPa. Geophysical Research Letters 29: doi: 10.1029/2001GL014321. issn: 0094-8276.

The in situ viscosity measurements of the pure molten Fe under high pressures were made by falling sphere X-ray radiography method. Viscosity coefficients at about 2000 K were 15--24 mPa s at 2.7--5.0 GPa, and 4--9 mPa s at 5.0--7.0 GPa. Drastic decrease was found at around 5 GPa, at which stable solid phase below the melting temperatures change from delta (bcc) to gamma (fcc) phases. The observation indicates the possibility that the structural change in the molten Fe occurs in a narrow pressure interval (1 GPa) at the similar condition with the phase transformation in the solid.

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Tectonophysics, Planetary interiors (5430, 5724), Tectonophysics, Physics of magma and magma bodies, Mineral Physics, X ray, neutron, and electron spectroscopy and diffraction
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Geophysical Research Letters
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