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Exploration Of H2o Ice At Extreme Conditions, Zachary M. Grande
Exploration Of H2o Ice At Extreme Conditions, Zachary M. Grande
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Static compression experiments on water ice are needed for precise characterization and discovery of new ice phases near room temperature. Here I present my efforts and the developments that have been made to reduce detrimental effects found in high-pressure experiments in order to acquire precise measurements on ice approaching 3 Mbar. Several key observations are made, relating to the phase transition of ice-VII to X, an intermediate phase I have named ice-VIIt and evidence of a post ice X phase. Some of these experiments have been replicated using D2O ice as well, in order to gain insight into nuclear quantum …