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The effect of composition and temperature on the relaxed adiabatic bulk modulus of melts in the P2O5-Al2O 3-Na2SiO3 system have been investigated in the temperature range of 1140 to 1450 °C using ultrasonic interferometric methods at frequencies of 3, 5 and 7 MHz. The density of these melts was determined using Pt-double-bob Archimedean densitometry techiques. P2O5 is known to dramatically affect the structure and the chemical and physical properties of granitic and pegmatitic melts as a function of the peralkalinity of the melt. The physical results of the structural changes occurring in Na2O-Al2O3-SiO2 melt upon the addition of P2O5 are observed by variations in the properties such as density and compressibility. For the present peralkaline melts, the bulk modulus and density decrease with addition of 15 mol% P2O5, and increase with the addition of 15 mol% Al2O3. The addition of P2O5 to the present melts results in a larger increase in melt compressibility than that observed with increasing polymerization between Na2SiO3 and Na2Si2O5 melts. This would suggest that not only is the polymerization of the melt increasing with the addition of P2O5 (Mysen et al. 1981; Nelson and Tallant 1984; Gan and Hess 1992), but that the tetrahedrally co-ordinated phosphorus complexes are influencing the bond lengths and energies within the melt structure; resulting in the structure becoming more compressible than expected, although incompressible (Vaughan and Weidner 1987) tetrahedral P2O5 polyhedra (Mysen et al. 1981; Gan and Hess 1992; Toplis et al. 1994) are being added to the melt structure.
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Webb, S., Courtial, P. Compressibility of P2O5-Al2O3-Na2SiO3 melts. Phys Chem Minerals 23, 205–211 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00220731
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