Figure 1
Stages of the 1,2,3-trichloropropane isochoric single-crystal growth inside the DAC chamber: (a) polycrystalline mass; (b) a single-crystal seed; (c) at 380 K the crystal immediately spreads across the chamber forming a very thin plate, producing the effect of clearly visible Newton fringes; (d) and (e) the crystal continues to grow across the culet surface and much more slowly toward the other culet; (f) the DAC chamber is nearly completely filled by the single crystal at 0.28 GPa. The small ruby chip for pressure calibration (at the central part of the right edge of the crystal) was pushed by the growing crystal from the middle part of the chamber to the gasket edge [(d)–(f)]. The Miller indices of the crystal faces are indicated in (d). |