Affiliation:
1. Center for High Pressure Science and Technology Advanced Research (HPSTAR), Beijing 100094, China
2. School of Earth Science and Resources, China University of Geosciences, Beijing 100083, China
3. School of Earth and Space Sciences, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
Abstract
Abstract
Cubic boron nitride (c-BN) has the same structure as diamond, and it shows very inert reaction activity in different chemical environments, even under high-pressure (P) and high-temperature (T) conditions. Furthermore, the P- and T-dependent Raman shift of c-BN (e.g., TO mode) can be distinguished from that of the diamond anvil (c-BN at ~1054 cm–1 vs. diamond at ~1331 cm–1 at ambient conditions), making c-BN a potential P-T sensor for diamond-anvil cell (DAC) experiments. However, the Raman shift of c-BN has not been well studied at high P-T conditions, especially at temperatures above 700 K. In this study, we systematically calibrated the Raman shift of the TO mode (νTO) for synthetic c-BN grains at high-P and high-T conditions up to 15 GPa and 1300 K. Both ruby (Mao et al. 1986) and Sm2+:SrB4O7 (Datchi et al. 2007) were used as internally consistent standards for calibration of c-BN P-T sensor. Our results show that the Raman shift of c-BN is negatively correlated with temperature [∂νTO/∂T = –0.02206(71)] but positively correlated with pressure [∂νTO/∂P = –3.35(2)]. More importantly, we found that the P-T cross derivative for the Raman shift of c-BN [∂2νTO/∂P∂T = 0.00105(7)] cannot be ignored, as it was assumed in previous studies. Finally, we calibrated a Raman shift P-T sensor of c-BN up to 15 GPa and 1300 K as follows:
P = A ( T ) − A ( T ) 2 + 0.2194 B ( T , Δ v ) 0.1097
where A(T) = 3.47(6) + 0.00105(7)T, B(T, ΔνTO) = 2.81(51) – 0.0053(16)T – 1.78(11) × 10–5T2 – ΔνTO. The c-BN Raman shift P-T sensor in this study fills the P-T gap ranging from previously performed externally resistance-heated to laser-heated DAC experiments. The effect of c-BN grain size and Raman system laser power on the calibration were also tested for the P-T sensor. In addition, we conducted three sets of high-P-T experiments to test the practicability of c-BN P-T sensor for water-rock interaction experiments in DAC. Testing experiments showed c-BN has very stable chemical activity in water and clear Raman signal at high-P-T conditions in comparison with other P-T sensors (e.g., ruby, Sm2+:SrB4O7, and quartz). Hence, the Raman shifts of c-BN may serve as an ideal P-T sensor for studying water-rock interactions in a DAC, especially at high-P and high-T conditions relevant to subduction zones.
Publisher
Mineralogical Society of America
Subject
Geochemistry and Petrology,Geophysics
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