Figure 3
Photograph of a sample of KClO3 confined in a diamond anvil cell (looking through one of the diamonds). The yellow spots are caused by molecular oxygen released when the X-ray beam hit that particular region of the sample and vary in degree of intensity as they each represent a different pressure and the decay rates vary with pressure (see Fig. 2). The diagonal yellow line going from quadrant II to quadrant IV was repeatedly used for finding the sample during the standard alignment procedure performed after each change in pressure. |