Calibration of a multi-anvil high-pressure apparatus to simulate planetary interior conditions

J S Knibbe1, S M Luginbühl1, R Stoevelaar1

  • 11Faculty of Science, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

EPJ Techniques and Instrumentation
|April 19, 2019
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