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Thermodynamics of Silicate Melts: Configurational Properties

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The ease with which a liquid adjusts to the shape of its container is a well-known consequence of the hallmark of the molten state, atomic mobility. Atomic mobility is the very reason why liquids flow, even though another salient feature evident through daily experience is that the viscosity increases when the temperature decreases. In fact, if crystallization does not occur, the viscosity eventually becomes so high that flow can no longer take place during the timescale of an experiment. The resulting material is a glass, i.e., a solid with the frozen-in disordered atomic arrangement of a liquid. Glasses have been produced for millennia, but the kinetic nature of the liquid-glass transition and its influence on the properties of glasses have long remained elusive. We will not specifically address these aspects, however, because they have already been extensively discussed in the geochemical literature from a relaxational (Dingwell and Webb, 1990) or thermochemical standpoint (Richet and Bottinga, 1983, 1986). In this review, we will focus on features of liquids that are directly related to atomic mobility, namely, the existence of those contributions to physical properties of liquids that have been termed configurational (Simon, 1931; Bernal, 1936).

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Richet, P., Neuville, D.R. (1992). Thermodynamics of Silicate Melts: Configurational Properties. In: Saxena, S.K. (eds) Thermodynamic Data. Advances in Physical Geochemistry, vol 10. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-2842-4_5

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