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Compressibility of phase Egg AlSiO₃OH: Equation of state and role of water at high pressure

¹ Institute of Mineralogy, Petrology and Economic Geology, Faculty of Science, Tohoku University, Sendai 980-8578, Japan
² National Institute for Materials Science, Namiki 1-1, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-0044, Japan
³ High Energy Accelerator Research Organization, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan

Correspondence: ^* E-mail: ohtani{at}mail.cc.tohoku.ac.jp,cvv31{at}hotmail.com

We have determined the equation of state of phase Egg, AlSiO₃OH, at room temperature up to 40 GPa, using X-ray powder diffraction with synchrotron radiation. We derivative K_0T^' = 6.5 (4) by fitting a third order Birch-Murnaghan equation of state. When K^'_0T is fixed at 4, we obtain K_0T = 183 ± 2 GPa. This value can be compared to other hydrous phases existing in the transition zone as well as to non-hydrous phases, such as kyanite, Al₂SiO₅. We find that despite the presence of hydrogen, the bulk modulus of phase Egg remains high, unlike other low-pressure hydrous minerals. In addition, we found that phase Egg is more compressible along the b axis, where the O-H bonds are oriented. Our results are in good agreement with previous theoretical calculations, performed on the similar hydrous phase -AlOOH, that show that the O-H bond strengthens with pressure, suggesting that the presence of water stored in these phases does not soften the material at pressures corresponding to lower mantle conditions.

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