Sigríður María Aðalsteinsdóttir, Guðmundur Sverrisson, Samuel Warren Scott, Erlend Straume, Adolph M. Bravo, Andri Stefánsson
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Abstract
Water significantly impacts the chemical evolution of the Earth’s crust, affecting environments from volcanic settings to hydrothermal systems. These fluids transport elements essential for geological processes, such as metal ore deposit formation. At high temperatures, as water transitions from liquid to vapor, its molecular structure changes, drastically reducing its capacity to dissolve solids and solvate ions. Here, we report experimental results of halite (NaCl(s)) solubility in water vapor at 400–700 °C and 30–300 bar using a novel U-tube flow-through reactor system. The results show that halite solubility is low (xNaCl,tot = 3.2 × 10−9 to 2.9 × 10−4 mol/mol) and increases with temperature and pressure, attributed to the dissolution of NaCl followed by its hydration according to the reaction:
期刊介绍:
Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta publishes research papers in a wide range of subjects in terrestrial geochemistry, meteoritics, and planetary geochemistry. The scope of the journal includes:
1). Physical chemistry of gases, aqueous solutions, glasses, and crystalline solids
2). Igneous and metamorphic petrology
3). Chemical processes in the atmosphere, hydrosphere, biosphere, and lithosphere of the Earth
4). Organic geochemistry
5). Isotope geochemistry
6). Meteoritics and meteorite impacts
7). Lunar science; and
8). Planetary geochemistry.