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Published November 2007 | public
Journal Article

Hydrogen analysis in minerals by continuous-flow mass spectrometry

Abstract

We present a method for on-line dehydration of small quantities of hydrous and nominally anhydrous minerals followed by measurement of the absolute abundance of hydrogen released from the sample by continuous-flow mass spectrometry. This method is appropriate for measuring water content between 18 ppm and 10 wt% H_2O and requires a minimum of ~2 × 10^(−8) of hydrogen per analysis. The hydrogen needed for an analysis corresponds to 10–200 μg of hydrous minerals or 5–40 mg of nominally anhydrous minerals. We develop measurement protocols for garnet and pyroxene, two nominally anhydrous minerals that are potentially major reservoirs of hydrogen in the mantle.

Additional Information

© 2007 by the Mineralogical Society of America. Manuscript received January 22, 2007. Manuscript accepted August 6, 2007. Manuscript handled by Eugen Libowitzky. We thank E. Miura Boyd, D. Bell, and M. Baker for graciously supplying sample materials. We thank E. Libowitzky and A. Beran for thoughtful reviews that improved this manuscript. This work was supported by National Science Foundation grants no. EAR-0337736 and EAR-0337816. J. O'Leary was also supported by the Gordon and Betty Moore fellowship program.

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