Abstract
The solubility of water in melts in the NaAlSi3O8−H2O system at high P and T was deduced from the appearance of quenched products and from water concentrations in the quenched glasses measured by ion probe, calibrated by hydrogen manometry. Starting materials were gels with sufficient water added to ensure saturation of the melts under the run conditions. Experiments were carried out for 10–30 h in an internally heated argon pressure vessel (eight at 1400° C and 0.2–0.73 GPa and three at 0.5 GPa and 900–1200° C) and for 1 h in a piston-cylinder apparatus (three at 1200° C, 1–1.3 GPa). No bubbles were observed in the glasses quenched at P ∼30 wt% at 1.3 GPa and 1200° C) and critical behaviour is approached at ∼1.3 GPa and 1200° C. The critical curve rises to slightly higher P at lower T and intersects the three-phase or melting curve at a critical end point near 670° C and 1.5 GPa, above which albite coexists only with a supercritical fluid.
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