Nature Communications (Oct 2021)

Breaking of Henry’s law for sulfide liquid–basaltic melt partitioning of Pt and Pd

  • Mingdong Zhang,
  • Yuan Li

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-26311-x
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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Platinum group elements are used as tracers for planetary and PGE sulfide deposit formation. Here, the authors, through the measurements of Pt and Pd partition coefficients between sulfide liquid and basaltic melt, demonstrate that the partitioning of Pt and Pd does not obey Henry’s law.