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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Feb 18.
Published in final edited form as: Nature. 2016 Aug 18;536(7616):326–328. doi: 10.1038/nature18594

Extended Data Figure 1. A fully molten metal-silicate sample recovered from the laser-heated diamond anvil cell.

Extended Data Figure 1

A backscattered electron scanning electron microscopy image of a thin section recovered from a laser heated diamond anvil cell experiment. The section is excavated and lifted out from the center of the heated region then thinned down to 3 microns using a focused ion beam instrument. The metal and the silicate are both fully molten, as indicated by the coalesced metallic ball in the center and the circular rim of silicate around it. This sample was compressed to 55 GPa and heated to 3,600 K for 60 seconds.