“…While aqueous fluids dissolve silicate components under HTHP conditions (Anderson and Burnham 1965;Nakamura and Kushiro 1974), the solutes are not quenched into a single phase and can be recovered as a mixture of glass globules, quench crystals, and other materials (Schneider and Eggler 1986;Keppler 1994;Brenan et al 1995). Such materials quenched from aqueous fluids under HTHP conditions can be analyzed after recovery through various methods including (1) leaching with water (Cullers et al 1970;Flynn and Burnham 1978;Borchert et al 2010a, b), (2) leaching with HCl acid (Keppler and Wyllie 1991;Keppler 1994Keppler , 1996Bai and Koster van Groos 1999), (3) hand-picking (Schneider and Eggler 1986;Ayers and Eggler 1995;Brenan et al 1995), (4) diamond aggregate trap followed by freezing (Kessel et al 2005a), and (5) micro-PIXE (particle induced X-ray emission) analysis of samples quenched in a Bassett-type hydrothermal diamond anvil cell (HDAC; Figure 1A,B; Bassett et al 1993;Bureau et al 2003Bureau et al , 2005Bureau et al , 2007Bureau et al , 2010. Because of the differences in estimating fluid compositions, the reported values of partition coefficients between melts and aqueous fluids have varied to some extent (Ayers and Eggler 1995;Keppler 1996).…”