Abstract: | By employing an electrochemical technique involving stabilized zirconia as solid electrolyte and Mo + MoO2 mixture as reference electrode, the equilibrium oxygen partial pressures for three-phase assemblages of CaSiO3(s) + Ca3Si2O7(s) + {CaO + SiO2 + FexO} melt and Ca3Si2O7(s) + Ca2SiO4(s) + {CaO + SiO2 + FexO} melt were determined as: - log {PO2 (CS + C3S2 + L)/bar} = - 3.22 13000/(T/K) ± 0.05 - log {PO2 (C3S2 + C2S + L)/bar} = - 0.92 16400/ (T/K) ± 0.04. respectively, where CS, C3S2 and C2S indicate CaSiO3(s), Ca3Si2O7(s). and Ca2SiO4(s), respectively. |