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Article Dans Une Revue Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors Année : 2012

X-ray diffraction from stishovite under nonhydrostatic compression to 70 GPa: Strength and elasticity across the tetragonal → orthorhombic transition

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The tetragonal phase of silica (stishovite) was synthesized at high pressure and temperature in a laser-heated diamond anvil cell. Nonhydrostatic pressure condition was produced by pressurizing the sample without any pressure transmitting medium. The tetragonal → orthorhombic transition could be detected from the X-ray diffraction patterns at ∼40 GPa. In contrast, the orthorhombic phase has been reported to occur only above ∼60 GPa in an earlier experiments under hydrostatic pressure. However, the transition pressures derived from the square of the symmetry-breaking strain versus pressure data in the two cases differ only marginally, the values being 44(8) GPa and 49(2) GPa under nonhydrostatic and hydrostatic compressions, respectively. We combine the d-spacings measured under nonhydrostatic and hydrostatic compressions to derive a parameter Q(hkl) that contains the information on differential stress t (a measure of compressive strength) and single-crystal elasticity. The compressive strengths derived from the average value of Q(hkl) and line-width analysis agree well. It increases from ∼4 GPa at 20 GPa to ∼8 GPa at 40 GPa and decreases as the transition pressure is approached. In the orthorhombic phase, t increases with pressure monotonically. The mean crystallite size of the sample decreases from ∼5000 Å to ∼1000 Å as the pressure is increased from 20 GPa to 45 GPa and remains nearly unchanged between 45 GPa and 70 GPa. The single-crystal elastic moduli derived from the X-ray diffraction data indicate that (C11-C12) decreases rapidly as the transition pressure is approached. Line-width analysis of the diffraction lines suggests that near-hydrostatic pressure condition is achieved by laser annealing of the compressed sample.

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hal-00784305 , version 1 (04-02-2013)

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Anil K. Singh, Denis Andrault, Pierre Bouvier. X-ray diffraction from stishovite under nonhydrostatic compression to 70 GPa: Strength and elasticity across the tetragonal → orthorhombic transition. Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors, 2012, 208-209, pp.1-10. ⟨10.1016/j.pepi.2012.07.003⟩. ⟨hal-00784305⟩
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