incompatible element

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incompatible
adjective
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/ˌɪn.kəmˈpæt.ə.bəl/us
/ˌɪn.kəmˈpæt̬.ə.bəl/
not able to exist or work with another person or thing because of ...
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element
noun
uk
/ˈel.ɪ.mənt/us
/ˈel.ə.mənt/
a part ...
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This author demonstrated that partial melting is still by far the most efficient process for fractionating highly/moderatelyincompatibleelementratios.
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The latter demonstrated that partial melting is still by far the most efficient process for fractionating highly/moderatelyincompatibleelementratios.
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Uranium is anincompatibleelementwithin magmas, and as such it tends to become accumulated within highly fractionated and evolved granite melts, particularly alkaline examples.
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Continuous partial melting of any single source predicts curved trends for moderately versus highly incompatible elements.
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The low concentrations of incompatible elements would have made the picritic magmas highly susceptible to contamination by continental crustal lithologies in which there are high concentrations of incompatible elements.
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We interpret these basalts of intra-plate origin as having originated from a geochemically enriched (in terms of incompatible elements) component, possibly formed as seamounts on ocean crust.
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Some such definition as "an unstable agglomeration of incompatible elements" would be more applicable.
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He said: "poverty, great wealth and democracy are ultimately incompatible elements in any society".
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Continental crust is enriched in incompatible elements compared to the basaltic ocean crust and much enriched compared to the underlying mantle.
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Zircon forms in silicate melts with large proportions of high field strength incompatible elements.
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Ore minerals, including the incompatible elements, remain dissolved in the hot solution, then crystallize out when the solution cools.
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S-type granites are more prone to generating late-stage fluid rich in silica, incompatible elements and halides because they are generally more potassic, oxidised and hydrous.
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It is possible to characterize these diametrically opposed juxtapositions, he says, as attempts to equalize incompatible elements for the sake of synthesis.
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Due to its large ionic radius, caesium is one of the incompatible elements.
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Because of its large ionic radius, rubidium is one of the incompatible elements.
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During the process of fractional crystallization, melts become enriched in incompatible elements.
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The melt extracts a large portion of the incompatible elements from its source that are not stable in the major minerals.
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This liberates not only water but incompatible elements attached to the mineral and trapped within crystal lattices.
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Two groups of incompatible elements that have difficulty entering the solid phase are known by acronyms.
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Further differentiation would take place later, creating the different chemical reservoirs of crust and mantle, with incompatible elements accumulating in the crust.
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