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The single-crystal elastic moduli, c ij x, of the olivine (α) and spinel (γ) polymorphs of nickel orthosilicate have been measured at atmospheric pressure and 20° C by Brillouin spectroscopy. The results are (Mbar), Ni2SiO4 olivine: c 11=3.40(2), c 22=2.38(2), c 33=2.53(2), c 44=0.71(1), c 55=0.87(1), c 66=0.78(1), c 12=1.09(2), c 13=1.10(4), c 23=1.13(3), Ni2SiO4 spinel: c 11=3.66(3), c 44=1.06(1), c 12=1.55(3). In comparing these results with extant elasticity data for olivine- and spinel-type compounds we find distinctive elastic characteristics related to crystal structure, and systematic trends due only to compositional variation. For silicate olivines, the longitudinal moduli decrease in the order c 11>c 33>c 22, regardless of composition. The moduli c 55 and c 66 are approximately equal, and greater than c 44. The former relationship is related to differences in polyhedral linkages along the crystallographic axes, whereas the latter may result from rotational freedom of SiO4 tetrahedra in response to different directions of shear. Composition affects elasticity most directly through the relative magnitudes of \(\bar c_{12} > \; = (c_{12} + c_{13} + c_{23} )/3\) and \(\bar c_{44} = (c_{44} + c_{55} + c_{66} )/3\). When transition-metal cations are six-coordinated by oxygen \(\bar c_{12} > \bar c_{44}\), and when alkaline-earth cations are six-coordinated \(\bar c_{44} > \bar c_{12}\).
The longitudinal moduli along and normal to the close-packed directions of spinels are similar, reflecting the framework-like arrangement of octahedra. These longitudinal moduli exhibit little compositional dependence upon tetrahedral cations but vary dramatically with octahedral substitution. Our data indicate that tetrahedral cations affect elastic properties more as the oxygen positional parameter, u, decreases. The u parameter is also directly related to elastic anisotropy. While γ-Ni2SiO4 (u=0.244) is elastically isotropic, anisotropy increases rapidly as u approaches a limiting value near 0.27, and may be related to mechanical stability of the spinel structure. The longitudinal wave velocities along close-packed directions in α and γ Ni2SiO4 are equal. Thus, for an α-γ polymorphic pair, the assumptions of elastic isotropy of the γ phase and equal velocities in close-packed directions of α and γ allows the c ij's and shear modulus of a spinel-structure silicate to be estimated from c 11 of the corresponding α phase and the bulk modulus of the γ phase.
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Bass, J.D., Weidner, D.J., Hamaya, N. et al. Elasticity of the olivine and spinel polymorphs of Ni2SiO4 . Phys Chem Minerals 10, 261–272 (1984). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00311951
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