Caption: An illustration of how cubic titanium nitride with a three - to - four ratio can be synthesized under extreme pressures and temperatures in a laser -
heated diamond anvil cell.
To test this idea, the team used sophisticated tools at Argonne National Laboratory to examine the propagation of seismic waves through samples of iron peroxide that were created under deep - Earth - mimicking pressure and temperature conditions employing a laser -
heated diamond anvil cell.
They created Ti3N4 in a cubic crystalline phase using a laser -
heated diamond anvil cell, which was brought to about 740,000 times normal atmospheric pressure (74 gigapascals) and about 2,200 degrees Celsius (2,500 kelvin).
Not exact matches
To generate an accurate picture of the temperature profile within the Earth's centre, scientists can look at the melting point of iron at different pressures in the laboratory, using a
diamond anvil cell to compress speck - sized samples to pressures of several million atmospheres, and powerful laser beams to
heat them to 4000 or even 5000 degrees Celsius.
Using a
diamond anvil pressure
cell and laser
heating — to duplicate the mantle's unimaginable pressure and
heat — they tested their recipe of bridgmanite with a pinch of ferric iron.
In a lab at Ohio State, the researchers compress different minerals that are common to the mantle and subject them to high pressures and temperatures using a
diamond anvil cell — a device that squeezes a tiny sample of material between two
diamonds and
heats it with a laser — to simulate conditions in the deep Earth.