"closure temperature" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_text": "Coined 1973 by Martin H. Dodson.",
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        {
          "ref": "1990, C. M. R. Fowler, The Solid Earth, Cambridge University Press, page 199",
          "text": "The relationship between the closure temperature of a mineral and its cooling history can be put onto a more rigorous footing by the use of some thermodynamics.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2006, Jean Braun, Peter van der Beek, Geoffrey Batt, Quantitative Thermochronology, Cambridge University Press, page 23",
          "text": "Dodson (1973) introduced the term closure temperature, which he defined as the temperature of the thermochronological system at the time t#x5F;c corresponding to its apparent age (cf. Figure 2.1). The closure temperature, which by definition lies between the open-system and blocking temperatures, provides the simplest conceptual entity to which a thermochronological age can be related.",
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        },
        {
          "text": "2020, Barbara A. Romanowicz, Seismic Tomography of the Earth's Mantle, David Alderton, Scott A. Elias (editors-in-chief), Encyclopedia of Geology, Volume 1, 2nd Edition, Academic Press, page 606,\nAs the closure temperature varies for every mineral and isotopic system, a system can be closed for one mineral at some temperature but open for another."
        }
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        "The temperature, of a mineral, etc., below which there is no significant diffusion of isotopes into the external environment; the temperature of said mineral at the time it was formed (as calculated by radiometric dating)."
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          "temperature",
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(geology) The temperature, of a mineral, etc., below which there is no significant diffusion of isotopes into the external environment; the temperature of said mineral at the time it was formed (as calculated by radiometric dating)."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "blocking temperature"
        }
      ],
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        "geography",
        "geology",
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      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "temperature below which no significant diffusion occurs",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "température de fermeture"
        },
        {
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "temperature below which no significant diffusion occurs",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "température de blocage"
        },
        {
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "temperature below which no significant diffusion occurs",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "Schließungstemperatur"
        },
        {
          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "temperature below which no significant diffusion occurs",
          "word": "záródási hőmérséklet"
        }
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "closure temperature"
      ]
    }
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  "word": "closure temperature"
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  "etymology_text": "Coined 1973 by Martin H. Dodson.",
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          "ref": "1990, C. M. R. Fowler, The Solid Earth, Cambridge University Press, page 199",
          "text": "The relationship between the closure temperature of a mineral and its cooling history can be put onto a more rigorous footing by the use of some thermodynamics.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2006, Jean Braun, Peter van der Beek, Geoffrey Batt, Quantitative Thermochronology, Cambridge University Press, page 23",
          "text": "Dodson (1973) introduced the term closure temperature, which he defined as the temperature of the thermochronological system at the time t#x5F;c corresponding to its apparent age (cf. Figure 2.1). The closure temperature, which by definition lies between the open-system and blocking temperatures, provides the simplest conceptual entity to which a thermochronological age can be related.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "text": "2020, Barbara A. Romanowicz, Seismic Tomography of the Earth's Mantle, David Alderton, Scott A. Elias (editors-in-chief), Encyclopedia of Geology, Volume 1, 2nd Edition, Academic Press, page 606,\nAs the closure temperature varies for every mineral and isotopic system, a system can be closed for one mineral at some temperature but open for another."
        }
      ],
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        "The temperature, of a mineral, etc., below which there is no significant diffusion of isotopes into the external environment; the temperature of said mineral at the time it was formed (as calculated by radiometric dating)."
      ],
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        "(geology) The temperature, of a mineral, etc., below which there is no significant diffusion of isotopes into the external environment; the temperature of said mineral at the time it was formed (as calculated by radiometric dating)."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "blocking temperature"
        }
      ],
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    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "temperature below which no significant diffusion occurs",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "température de fermeture"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "temperature below which no significant diffusion occurs",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "température de blocage"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "temperature below which no significant diffusion occurs",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Schließungstemperatur"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "temperature below which no significant diffusion occurs",
      "word": "záródási hőmérséklet"
    }
  ],
  "word": "closure temperature"
}