Figure 6
Rietveld refinement of the new MgSO4·5H2O phase at 85 K. The sample was prepared by compressing MgSO4·7H2O to ∼2 GPa at ∼293 K and then recovering it into liquid nitrogen. The upper image (a) shows the fit to the complete data set; the lower image(b) shows the region 2θ ≤ 60° in more detail. The reflection markers are (bottom up) CO2, ice Ih and MgSO4·5H2O (for further details see text). The four unindexed reflections marked with an asterisk in panel (b) were omitted from the refinement (for details see text). |