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SCIENCE
Volume 309, Issue 5736, Pages 923-925Publisher
AMER ASSOC ADVANCEMENT SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1126/science.1114879
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Silica (SiO2) exhibits extensive polymorphism at elevated pressures. X-ray diffraction measurements showed that a high-pressure form with a pyrite-type structure, denser than other known silica phases, is stable above 268 gigapascals and 1800 kelvin. The silicon coordination number increases from 6 in the alpha-PbO2-type phase to 6+2 in the pyrite-type phase, leading to a large increase in density by about 5% at the phase transition.
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