Phase Transformations of Elements under High Pressure

This handbook contains the latest theoretical and experimental information on nearly 100 elements, including first-and second-phase transitions, melting lines, crystal structures of stable and metastable phases, the stability of polymorphic modifications, and other useful properties and data. It emphasizes features such as changes in the liquid state, amorphization, and metallization and provides temperature-pressure diagrams for every element. The authors also describe the transitions...
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This handbook contains the latest theoretical and experimental information on nearly 100 elements, including first-and second-phase transitions, melting lines, crystal structures of stable and metastable phases, the stability of polymorphic modifications, and other useful properties and data. It emphasizes features such as changes in the liquid state, amorphization, and metallization and provides temperature-pressure diagrams for every element. The authors also describe the transitions of polymeric forms of fullerenes, hydrogen, and other crystal modifications of elements stable under high pressures and provide data that confirms their superconducting and magnetic properties.