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Scattering And Absorption of Light in Planetary Regoliths
Published on: July 1, 2019
Applications of impulsive stimulated scattering in the Earth and planetary sciences
E H Abramson1, J M Brown, L J Slutsky
1Department of Chemistry, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA. evan@geophys.washington.edu
Abstract:
The elastic, thermodynamic, and transport properties of crystals and fluids at high temperature and pressure play a central role in the earth and planetary sciences as well as in a variety of technologies. These properties also constitute a principal experimental constraint on the description of intermolecular interactions at short distances. Aspects of "impulsive stimulated scattering," when adapted to measurements in the diamond-anvil high-pressure cell, provide an approach to the determination of a subset of equilibrium and dynamic properties at high density.
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