Thermodynamics of mixing in MgSiO3–Al2O3 perovskite and ilmenite from ab initio calculations
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a Laboratory of Crystallography, ETH Zurich, Wolfgang-Pauli-Strasse 10, CH-8093 Zurich, Switzerland b Institute of Geosciences, University of Frankfurt, Altenhoeferallee 1, 60438 Frankfurt a. M., Germany c TU Bergakademie Freiberg, Institut für Werkstoffwissenschaft, Gustav-Zeuner-Strasse 5, 09599 Freiberg, Germany d Department of Geosciences, Department of Physics and Astronomy, and New York Center for Computational Sciences, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook NY 11794-2100, USA e Geology Department, Moscow State University, 119992 Moscow, Russia f Institute for Mineralogy and Petrology, Clausiusstrasse 5, 8092 Zurich, Switzerland
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