“…Given the high reactivity of olivine, the surface chemistry and dissolution kinetics have been studied under a broad range of experimental conditions, including closedsystem (Giammar et al, 2005;King et al, 2010;Daval et al, 2011) and well-mixed flow-through dissolution experiments on powdered olivine samples (Pokrovsky and Schott, 2000b;Oelkers, 2001), as well as single crystals (Jarvis et al, 2009;Saldi et al, 2013). Characterization of the reaction products has also included a range of techniques, such as X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (Pokrovsky and Schott, 2000a;Zakaznova-Herzog et al, 2008;Olsson et al, 2012), infrared spectroscopy (Pokrovsky and Schott, 2000a;Giammar et al, 2005;Loring et al, 2011), transmission electron microscopy (Bearat et al, 2006;Daval et al, 2011) and atomic force microscopy (King et al, 2014). Despite the range of studies focused on olivine reactivity in the presence of aqueous solutions, predictive models for olivine dissolution are subject to large uncertainties (Daval et al, 2011;Rimstidt et al, 2012).…”