The chemical case for Mercury mantle stripping

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Table 2 Metal interaction parameters

\({\epsilon }^{i}_{j} = {\epsilon }^{j}_{i}\quad \begin {array}{r} i \rightarrow \\ j{\downarrow }\\ \end {array} \)	Ni	Si	C	O	S
S	− 0.05	9.16	6.12	0	− 5.66
O	1.4	7.73	− 20.08	− 9.16
C	2.31	9.70	12.83
Si	7.5	0
Ni	0.12

Sources: O-O, O-Si, Si-Si (Hirose et al. 2017); S-Ni, Si-Ni, S-S, Ni-Ni (Wade et al. 2012); Ni-O (Tuff et al. 2011). C-C, C-S, C-O, C-Si, C-Ni MetalAct Website, http://www.earth.ox.ac.uk/~expet/metalact/, accessed 2018/01/04 (Wade and Wood 2005)