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    A diamond anvil cell (DAC) is a high-pressure device used in geology, engineering, and materials science experiments. It permits the compression of a small...
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  • high pressure measurements. The most common tool is a diamond anvil cell, which uses diamonds to put a small sample under pressure that can approach...
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  • and physicist known for being one of the four co-inventors of the diamond anvil cell at the National Bureau of Standards in 1957, with Alvin Van Valkenburg...
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    sample chamber of a diamond anvil cell apparatus. Since it is an optical method, which fully make use of the transparency of diamond anvils and only requires...
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    reason that diamond anvil cells can subject materials to pressures found deep in the Earth. Because the arrangement of atoms in diamond is extremely...
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    mid-sized, and three large anvils, but orchestras seldom can afford instrumentation on such a scale. Anvil Chorus Diamond anvil cell Anvil cloud Hahn, Robert...
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  • pressures, up to 25 GPa, a multi-anvil cell is used and for even higher pressures the diamond anvil cell. The diamond anvil cell is used to create extremely...
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  • University) reported the creation of solid metallic hydrogen using a diamond anvil cell. This state of hydrogen was originally predicted by Eugene Wigner...
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  • temperatures up to 2,200 °C. Although Diamond anvil cells and light-gas guns can access even higher pressures, the multi-anvil apparatus can accommodate much...
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  • on materials and the design and construction of devices, such as a diamond anvil cell, which can create high pressure. High pressure usually means pressures...
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    transparent diamond anvils as a tool for measuring electric and magnetic properties of materials at ultra high pressures using a diamond anvil cell. Synthetic...
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  • of around 495 gigapascals (4,890,000 atm; 71,800,000 psi) using a diamond anvil cell. A revised version was published in Science in 2017. In the preprint...
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  • geochemist, and inventor, known as one of the four co-inventors of the diamond anvil cell (DAC). Alvin Van Valkenburg, Jr. graduated in 1936 from Schenectady's...
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    two somewhat similar methods. One uses a diamond anvil cell and applied pressure ~37 GPa without heating the cell. In another method, fullerite is compressed...
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    diamond. At 2,500 MPa (360,000 psi), the water became ice VII, a form that is solid at room temperature. This ice, trapped within diamond anvil cells...
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    and diamond is not. Because of its hardness, it can be used in high-pressure experiments, as a replacement for diamond (see diamond anvil cell). Since...
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  • Material Testing and Characterization, Thermal Property Measurements, Diamond Anvil Cells, SEM/TEM/AFM, Gas/Vapor Heaters/Converters, Thin Film Preparation...
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    the core-like pressure by gripping it in a vise between 2 diamond tips (diamond anvil cell), and then heating to approximately 4000 K. The sample was...
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  • (June 2004). "Isotopically pure 13C layer as a stress sensor in a diamond anvil cell". Appl. Phys. Lett. 84 (26): 5308–5310. Bibcode:2004ApPhL..84.5308Q...
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    (Report). US Department of Energy. p. 98. Retrieved Oct 28, 2024. "Diamond Anvil Cell". Mineral Physics. Retrieved 2024-10-01. Cheng, Nanfei; Chou, I-Ming;...
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    Carbon (section Diamond)
    in laboratories as containment for high-pressure experiments (see diamond anvil cell), high-performance bearings, and limited use in specialized windows...
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  • mixture. A further extension of this technology is the explosive diamond anvil cell, utilizing multiple opposed shaped-charge jets projected at a single...
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    they were able to produce lonsdaleite at room temperatures using a diamond anvil cell. In 2021, Washington State University's Institute for Shock Physics...
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  • phase of MgSiO3 phase was discovered in 2004 using the laser-heated diamond anvil cell (LHDAC) technique by a group at the Tokyo Institute of Technology...
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  • pressures (40-48 gigapascal, or 400,000 to 480,000 atmospheres), in a diamond anvil cell. Amorphous carbonia is not stable at ordinary pressures—it quickly...
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    Stanford University. Mao is one of the most prolific users of the diamond anvil cell for research at high pressures. Although at the time the claim was...
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    has been experimentally confirmed via synthesis in a laser-heated diamond anvil cell. MgO2 can be produced by mixing MgO with hydrogen peroxide to create...
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  • high-pressure apparatus like a diamond anvil cell and reach the sample inside the cell, soft X-rays would be absorbed by the cell itself. In his report of finding...
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  • pressure experiments at the University of California Berkeley using a diamond anvil cell found both structures at only 50 GPa and a temperature of 2500 kelvins...
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    Mineralogist. 75: 1290–1310. Wogan, Tim (2 November 2012). "Improved diamond anvil cell allows higher pressures". Physics World. Retrieved 8 December 2014...
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