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Record W4301322576 · doi:10.26443/msurj.v2i1.141

A recipe for laboratory-grown crystals

2007· article· en· W4301322576 on OpenAlexaff
Michelle Deakin, Jeanne Paquette, Don Baker

Bibliographic record

VenueMcGill Science Undergraduate Research Journal · 2007
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldEarth and Planetary Sciences
TopicGeological and Geophysical Studies
Canadian institutionsMcGill University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsCarbonatiteSilicateCarbonateMineralogyElectron microprobeCrystal (programming language)Materials scienceScanning electron microscopeSilicate mineralsAlkali metalGeologyCrystallographyChemical engineeringChemistryGeochemistryMetallurgyComposite material

Abstract

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 Clinopyroxenes are among the first minerals to crystallize out of a ferromagnesian silicate magma. They commonly exhibit “sectorzoning”, a phenomenon whereby the crystal incorporates elements in different proportions on non-equivalent crystal faces. By growing clinopyroxene crystals in the laboratory, it is possible to investigate controls on compositional variation, which provides insight on magmatic processes. The goal of this research was to develop an experimental method for growing synthetic clinopyroxene (a silicate mineral) in a carbonate melt rather than in a silicate one. This is advantageous since silicate residue on the clinopyroxene crystal may damage crystal faces, which contain important information on growth features, unlike carbonate residue which is easily dissolved leaving crystal faces intact. The carbonate melt was modeled after the alkali-rich carbonatite lavas erupting at Oldoinyo Lengai, Tanzania by using powdered clinopyroxene, magnetite and alkali carbonates containing up to 5% wt. water as starting materials, and running the experiment at conditions of 800∞C and 10 kbars. Clinopyroxene crystals in a carbonate crystalline matrix were retrieved from the experiment capsules, and cleaned for imaging and analysis with the atomic force microscope (AFM), scanning electron microscope (SEM) and electron microprobe (EMP). This experimental approach provides well-preserved crystal faces whose surfaces can be examined at nanoscale resolution. This technique could be applied to a wide range of synthetic silicate minerals, and the resulting observations help to better understand the relationship between crystal surface structure and trace element uptake during crystal growth.
 
 
 

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.016
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.003
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesScience and technology studies
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.702
Threshold uncertainty score0.997

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0160.003
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.003
Science and technology studies0.0050.002
Scholarly communication0.0000.001
Open science0.0010.000
Research integrity0.0000.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.077
GPT teacher head0.344
Teacher spread0.267 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

Study designObservational
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

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Published2007
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