Image: Effect of extreme pressure on a carbon sphere.
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These images show the severe changes a pristine glassy carbon sphere underwent at
extreme pressure. Pressure of 40 GPa (normal diamond strength is 1.2 GPa) reduced
volume of the specimen in the image on the right by 44%. A new synchrotron
transmission x-ray microscope with nano-scale resolution captured the images.
Credit: Yu Lin and Wendy L. Mao, Stanford University