Abstracts for the 1999 NSLS Activity Report

Projects based on data collected between October 1,1998 and September 30, 1999

Phase Transformation of NaMgF3 Under High Pressure, by Jiuhua Chen, Donald J. Weidner, John B. Parise, and Michael T. Vaughan (SUNY, Stony Brook)

Phase Relation of (Mg,Fe)2SiO4 Under High Pressure, by Jiuhua Chen and Donald J. Weidner (SUNY, Stony Brook)

Compressibility of Hydrous Ringwoodite, by Jiuhua Chen, (SUNY, Stony Brook) and Hiroyuki Kagi (Tokyo U.)

Amorphization of Quartz at High Pressure, by Jiuhua Chen, Donald J. Weidner, Hiroyuki Kagi, Lucy Flesch, and Michael T. Vaughan (SUNY, Stony Brook)

Effect of Stress on the Olivine-Spinel Phase Transformation in Fayalite, by Jiuhua Chen, Donald J. Weidner, John B. Parise, and Michael T. Vaughan (SUNY, Stony Brook)

Phase Diagram and Thermoelasticity of ZnO, by Frederick Decremps, Jianzhong Zhang and Robert C. Liebermann (SUNY, Stony Brook)

Elasticity of ZnO at High Pressures and High Temperatures, by Frederick Decremps, Jianzhong Zhang, Baosheng Li and Robert C. Liebermann (SUNY, Stony Brook)

High Pressure Behavior of Cubic ZrMo2O8, by Cora Lind and Angus P. Wilkinson (Georgia Tech), and Michael T. Vaughan, Donald J. Weidner and Jiuhua Chen (SUNY, Stony Brook)

Sound Velocity Measurements and P-V-T EoS on Ringwoodite to 8 GPa and 873K, by Baosheng Li (SUNY, Stony Brook)

Elastic Properties of MgO at High Pressure and High Temperature, by Baosheng Li (SUNY, Stony Brook)

Elastic Properties of CaSiO3 at High Pressure and High Temperature, by Baosheng Li and Donald J. Weidner (SUNY, Stony Brook)

In-situ X-ray Acoustic Measurements of P and S Wave Speeds in MgSiO3 Synthetic Perovskite at High Pressure and High Temperature at 10-50 MHz by Ultrasonic Interferometry, by Yegor D. Sinelnikov and Robert C. Liebermann (SUNY, Stony Brook)

A CCD X-ray Detector for High Pressure Diffraction Experiments, by Michael T. Vaughan, John D. Parise, Jiuhua Chen, Donald J. Weidner, Kenneth J. Baldwin, and Carey C. Koleda (SUNY, Stony Brook)

Rheology of San Carlos at High Pressure and High Temperature using CCD and IP, by Yujun Wu, Jiuhua Chen, Michael T. Vaughan, Yaqin Xu, Jianzhong Zhang and Donald J. Weidner (SUNY, Stony Brook)

Deformation of Alumina at High Pressure and High Temperature, by Yaqin Xu, Donald J. Weidner, Michael T. Vaughan, and Yujun Wu (SUNY, Stony Brook)

Rheology of Ringwoodite Under Mantle Pressure and Temperature Conditions, by Yaqin Xu, Donald J. Weidner and Michael T. Vaughan (SUNY, Stony Brook)

Stress Relaxation in MgO at High Pressure and High Temperature, by Yaqin Xu, Donald J. Weidner, Michael T. Vaughan and Jiuhua Chen (SUNY, Stony Brook)

Thermal Equation of State of Aluminum and Iron Enriched Silicate Perovskite, by Jianzhong Zhang (SUNY, Stony Brook)

The Bulk Modulus Systematics for B1-Structured 3d Transition Metal Monoxides: Prediction for the Bulk Modulus of Stoichiometric FeO, by Jianzhong Zhang (SUNY, Stony Brook)

Thermal Equation of State of Magnesiowustite (Mg0.6Fe0.4)O, by Jianzhong Zhang, Paul Kostak and Robert C. Liebermann (SUNY, Stony Brook)

Effect of Pressure on the Thermal Expansion of MgO up to 8.2 GPa, by Jianzhong Zhang (SUNY, Stony Brook)

Evidence for Effect of Nonstoichiometry on the Elastic Properties of Wustite, by Jianzhong Zhang (SUNY, Stony Brook)

X-ray Diffraction Study of FexO at High Pressure and Temperature: Magnetic Exsolution and Thermal Expansion, by Jianzhong Zhang (SUNY, Stony Brook)

X-ray Diffraction Study of b-Eucryptite LiAlSiO4 at High Pressure and High Temperature, by Jianzhong Zhang (SUNY, Stony Brook)

Magnetic Exsolution and Associated Changes of Stoichiometry in FexO at High Pressure and Temperature: Preliminary Study from a Combined CCD/IP Detection System for Monochromatic XRD Studies, by Jianzhong Zhang, Jiuhua Chen, Michael T. Vaughan and Donald J. Weidner (SUNY, Stony Brook)