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SCIENCE
Volume 320, Issue 5879, Pages 1054-1057Publisher
AMER ASSOC ADVANCEMENT SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1126/science.1155715
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Sodium exhibits a pronounced minimum of the melting temperature at similar to 118 gigapascals and 300 kelvin. Using single- crystal high- pressure diffraction techniques, we found that the minimum of the sodium melting curve is associated with a concentration of seven different crystalline phases. Slight changes in pressure and/ or temperature induce transitions between numerous structural modifications, several of which are highly complex. The complexity of the phase behavior above 100 gigapascals suggests extraordinary liquid and solid states of sodium at extreme conditions and has implications for other seemingly simple metals.
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