Effect of oxygen fugacity on the coordination and oxidation state of iron in alkali bearing silicate melts

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  • Jaayke L. Knipping
  • Harald Behrens
  • Max Wilke
  • Jörg Göttlicher
  • Paola Stabile

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  • University of Michigan
  • Helmholtz Centre Potsdam - German Research Centre for Geosciences (GFZ)
  • Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)
  • University of Camerino
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Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)143-154
Number of pages12
JournalChemical geology
Volume411
Early online date6 Jul 2015
Publication statusPublished - 14 Sept 2015

Abstract

In this study the effect of oxygen fugacity (fO2) on the oxidation state and coordination of Fe was investigated in different alkali trisilicate glasses (Rb2Si3O7=RFS, K2Si3O7=KFS; Na2Si3O7=NFS; Li2Si3O7=LFS) doped with ~5wt.% of Fe2O3 with main focus on K- and Na-bearing compositions. Most of the experiments were conducted at ambient pressure in a gas mixing furnace at 1250°C with controlled redox conditions (log fO2/bar: -0.68 to -16.18). The quenched glasses were analyzed using several methods. Analyses by a colorimetric wet chemistry method revealed a continuous increase in Fe2+/Fetotal towards more reducing conditions without reaching 100% Fe2+ even at extremely reducing conditions (range of Fe2+/Fetotal: from 0.08 in air to 0.93 in H2 atmosphere). X-ray absorption near edge structure (XANES) spectroscopy shows an increase of Fe coordination with decreasing ionic radius of the coexisting alkali, while the average coordination number seems to be independent on the oxidation state of iron aside from the largest studied alkali Rb, which seems to support lower coordinated Fe (tetrahedral) at more oxidizing conditions. The Fe2+/Fetotal ratios inferred by XANES, using an intensity ratio based calibration of Wilke et al. (2004), are systematically higher by 10% compared to the wet chemistry results of this study, which may be due to the different external Fe2+/Fetotal determination method (Mössbauer spectroscopy) used in their calibration. A new calibration curve based on wet chemistry and centroid positions is proposed for alkali silicate glasses. In optical spectroscopy, the position of the main Fe2+-related peak shifts to lower wavenumbers with increasing ionic radius of the incorporated alkali and with increasing abundance of ferrous iron. Absorption coefficients εFe(II) and εFe(III) were calculated for the absorbance band at ~9000 and ~26,000cm-1, respectively. A decrease in εFe(II) was detected with decreasing ionic radius of the incorporated alkalis (εFe(II)KFS=31.8±2.6L·mol-1·cm-1, εFe(II)NFS=30.7±2.3L·mol-1·cm-1 and εFe(II)LFS=23.6±1.7L·mol-1·cm-1). Finally, the results of this study are compared with recent models, which predict fO2 based on the knowledge of the Fe2+/Fetotal ratio. All models overestimate Fe2+/Fetotal in alkali silicate melts at very reducing conditions probably due to an unanticipated stabilization of Fe3+ by adjacent Fe2+.

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    Alkali silicate glasses, Fe-coordination, Fe-oxidation state, Optical spectroscopy, Oxygen fugacity, XANES

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Effect of oxygen fugacity on the coordination and oxidation state of iron in alkali bearing silicate melts. / Knipping, Jaayke L.; Behrens, Harald; Wilke, Max et al.
In: Chemical geology, Vol. 411, 14.09.2015, p. 143-154.

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Knipping JL, Behrens H, Wilke M, Göttlicher J, Stabile P. Effect of oxygen fugacity on the coordination and oxidation state of iron in alkali bearing silicate melts. Chemical geology. 2015 Sept 14;411:143-154. Epub 2015 Jul 6. doi: 10.1016/j.chemgeo.2015.07.004
Knipping, Jaayke L. ; Behrens, Harald ; Wilke, Max et al. / Effect of oxygen fugacity on the coordination and oxidation state of iron in alkali bearing silicate melts. In: Chemical geology. 2015 ; Vol. 411. pp. 143-154.
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