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Science 12 February 1965:
Vol. 147. no. 3659, pp. 732 - 733
DOI: 10.1126/science.147.3659.732
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Pressure Dependence of the Alpha-Beta Transition Temperature in Silver Selenide

Mario D. Banus 1

1 Lincoln Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Lexington

The pressure dependence of the agr-beta transition temperature in Ag2Se was determined by observing the temperature at which the sharp change in resistivity occurs when Ag2Se is transformed from the low-temperature orthorhombic to the high temperature body-centered-cubic form. The transition temperature increased from 133°C at 1 atmosphere to 298°C at 47 kilobars. The value of DgrHt, the heat of transformation, of 2.19 kcal/mol measured calorimetrically agreed well with the value calculated from dT/dP of the transition.

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