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Table 3 Nitrogen partition coefficients among lower mantle silicate phases (data from Yoshioka et al. 2018)

From: Nitrogen in the Earth: abundance and transport

 

Partition coefficients

wadsleyite/olivine

5.1 ± 2.1

wadsleyite/ringwoodite

2.0 ± 1.2

ringwoodite/bridgmanite

4.2 ± 0.3

metal/bridgmanite

~ 98