Effect of Oxygen on Diamond Crystallization in Metal-Carbon Systems.

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Sobolev Institute of Geology and Mineralogy, Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences, Koptuyg avenue 3, Novosibirsk 630090, Russia.

Published: July 2020

In this article, we report the influence of oxygen concentration in the transition-metal solvent-catalyst on the crystallization processes, morphology, and defect-and-impurity content of diamond crystals. In a series of experiments, the concentration of oxygen ( ) in the growth system was varied by adding FeO to the charge, and the other parameters and conditions of the growth were constant: NiFe solvent-catalyst, = 6.0 GPa, = 1400 °C, and duration of 40 h. It is found that on increasing in the growth system from 0 to 10 wt %, the crystallization of diamond proceeds through the following stages: single crystal → block crystal → spontaneous crystals → aggregate of block crystals and twin crystals. At ≥ 5 wt %, diamond crystallizes jointly with wustite (FeO) and metastable graphite. The oxygen solubility in the iron-nickel melt is estimated at about 2 wt %. With increasing oxygen content in the system, the range of nitrogen concentrations in diamonds crystallized in one experiment significantly broadens with the maximum nitrogen concentrations being increased from 200-250 ppm in the experiment without O additives to 1100-1200 ppm in the experiment with 10 wt % O added. The established joint growth of diamond and wustite suggests possible crystallization of natural diamonds in the Fe-Ni-O-C system over a wide range of oxygen concentrations up to 10 wt %.

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