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Article Dans Une Revue Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America Année : 2019

Redox control on nitrogen isotope fractionation during planetary core formation

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The present-day nitrogen isotopic compositions of Earth's surficial (15 N-enriched) and deep reservoirs (15 N-depleted) differ significantly. This distribution can neither be explained by modern mantle degassing nor recycling via subduction zones. As the effect of planetary differentiation on the behavior of N isotopes is poorly understood, we experimentally determined N-isotopic fraction-ations during metal-silicate partitioning (analogous to planetary core formation) over a large range of oxygen fugacities (ΔIW −3.1 < logfO 2 < ΔIW −0.5, where ΔIW is the logarithmic difference between experimental oxygen fugacity [fO 2 ] conditions and that imposed by the coexistence of iron and wüstite) at 1 GPa and 1,400°C. We developed an in situ analytical method to measure the N-elemental and-isotopic compositions of experimental run products composed of Fe-C-N metal alloys and basaltic melts. Our results show substantial N-isotopic fractionations between metal alloys and silicate glasses, i.e., from −257 ± 22‰ to −49 ± 1‰ over 3 log units of fO 2. These large fractionations under reduced conditions can be explained by the large difference between N bonding in metal alloys (Fe-N) and in silicate glasses (as molecular N 2 and NH complexes). We show that the δ 15 N value of the silicate mantle could have increased by ∼20‰ during core formation due to N segregation into the core. nitrogen isotopes | fractionation | core formation | speciation | ion probe
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hal-02172788 , version 2 (03-12-2020)
hal-02172788 , version 1 (20-10-2021)

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Célia Dalou, Evelyn Füri, Cécile Deligny, Laurette Piani, Marie-Camille Caumon, et al.. Redox control on nitrogen isotope fractionation during planetary core formation. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2019, 116 (29), pp.14485-14494. ⟨10.1073/pnas.1820719116⟩. ⟨hal-02172788v2⟩
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