Published October 2003 | Version v1
Journal article

Fluorinert as a pressure-transmitting medium for high-pressure diffraction studies

  • 1. Crystallography Laboratory, Department of Geosciences, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia 24060-0420 (United States)
  • 2. School of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia 30332-0400 (United States)

Description

Fluorinert is a liquid pressure-transmitting medium that is widely used in high-pressure diffraction work. A systematic study of five different fluorinerts was carried out using single-crystal x-ray diffraction in a diamond-anvil cell in order to determine the pressure range over which they provide a hydrostatic stress state to the sample. It was found that none of the fluorinerts studied can be considered hydrostatic above 1.2 GPa, a lower pressure than reported previously

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Publishing Information

Journal Title
Review of Scientific Instruments
Journal Volume
74
Journal Issue
10
Journal Page Range
p. 4564-4566
ISSN
0034-6748
CODEN
RSINAK

INIS

Country of Publication
United States
Country of Input or Organization
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
INIS RN
36005628
Subject category
S75: CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS, SUPERCONDUCTIVITY AND SUPERFLUIDITY;
Descriptors DEI
DIAMONDS; DIFFRACTION; LIQUIDS; MONOCRYSTALS; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; PRESSURE RANGE; STRESSES; X-RAY DIFFRACTION
Descriptors DEC
CARBON; COHERENT SCATTERING; CRYSTALS; DIFFRACTION; ELEMENTS; FLUIDS; MINERALS; NONMETALS; SCATTERING

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(c) 2003 American Institute of Physics.