[meteorite-list] New Insight into Silica Explains Planetary Smashup

[Paul]

New Insight into Silica Explains Planetary Smashup
Earth & Space Science News, Eos, vol. 98, no. 2, p. 43.
https://eos.org/research-spotlights/new-insight-into-silica-explains-planetary-smashup
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/309873404_New_Insight_into_Silica_Explains_Planetary_Smashup

There are other interesting science articles in the
February 2017 issue (vol. 98, no. 2) of "EOS" at:
https://eos.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/Feb-17_magazine.pdf?x35494

The paper is:

Connolly, J.A., 2016. Liquid‐vapor phase relations in the Si‐O
system: A calorically constrained van der Waals‐type model.
Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets, 121(9), pp.1641-1666.
http://www.perplex.ethz.ch/papers.html
http://www.perplex.ethz.ch/papers/Connolly_JGR_Planets_2016.pdf

Yours,

Paul H.