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据国外媒体报道,美国布朗大学地理科学系一位名叫Colin Jackson的本科生,首次发现了能够溶解惰性气体的矿物。该发现近期发表于《自然·地理科学》杂志上。他所做的实验已证明惰性气体能够高度溶解于角闪石中(amphibole)。角闪石是一种大洋地壳中的常见矿物。角闪石能够溶解惰性气体的关键因素在于它的晶格结构。角闪石和其他硅酸盐矿物通常是由正四面体和正八面体结构单元相互连接,组成规则的环状结构。不同硅酸盐矿物中环状结构数量的不同决定了其溶解惰性气体的能力。该发现解释了惰性气体由地壳向大气中释放的路径——
According to foreign media reports, undergraduate at Colin Jackson, Department of Geography, Brown University, USA, discovered for the first time minerals that dissolve inert gases. The discovery was recently published in the journal Nature and Geography. Experiments he did have demonstrated that inert gases are highly soluble in amphiboles. Amphibole is a common mineral in the oceanic crust. Amphibole is able to dissolve the inert gas is the key factor in its lattice structure. Amphiboles and other silicate minerals are usually connected by regular tetrahedron and octahedron structural units to form regular ring structures. The difference in the number of ring structures in different silicate minerals determines their ability to dissolve inert gases. This finding explains the path of inert gas released from the earth’s crust to the atmosphere -