Argon solubility

Carroll M.R. and Stolper E.M. (1991) Argon solubility and diffusion in silica glass implications for the solution behavior of molecular gases. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 55, 211-225. 

Figure 2.5 Correlation between argon solubility (in natural logarithm of the Henry s law constant) in silicate melts and various parameters NBO/Si (no bridging oxygen to silicon ratio), molar volume, ionic porosity, and density. Reproduced from Shibata et al. (1998).

Figure 4.2 Argon solubility (cm3STPl 1 of solution) from moist air at 1 atm total pressure for fresh water and NaCl brines as a function of temperature. Note that the argon solubility decreases systematically with increasing temperature and NaCl content. After Smith and Kennedy (1983).

Chamorro-Perez, E., Gillet, P., Jambon, A. (1996) Argon solubility in silicate melts at very high pressures. Experimental set-up and preliminary results for silica and anorthite melts. 

Chamorro-Perez E, Gillet P, Jambon A, Badro J, McMillan P (1998) Low argon solubility in silicate melts at high pressure. Nature 393 352-355... 

Barkan, E.S. (1986) Argon solubility in water from mix with methane at high temperature and pressure. Geochemistry, No. 4, p. 562-565. (in Russian). 

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