Sentences with phrase «tiny diamond anvils»
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The team crushed a sample containing tiny crystals of osmium and liquid argon between the jeweled jaws of a diamond anvil, which exerts several hundred tons per square centimeter of pressure.
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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.