image: This is an opened diamond anvil cell. The conical diamond is visible in the center of the left disk. The metal sheet in the center of the right disk serves as the joint surrounding the sample. This image relates to a paper that appeared in the April 26, 2013, issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by Simone Anzellini at French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA) in Arpajon, France, and colleagues was titled, "Melting of Iron at Earth's Inner Core Boundary Based on Fast X-ray Diffraction." view more
Credit: [Image courtesy of ESRF/Blascha Faust]