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Interesting, but would tension and pressure be the same underlying mechanism? eg. pressure along the z axis causes expansion in x-y axes, so is the pressure res
by naasking 3y ago
Interesting, but would tension and pressure be the same underlying mechanism? eg. pressure along the z axis causes expansion in x-y axes, so is the pressure result really just tension in disguise?
- fwlr 3y agoDefinitely at the limits of my understanding here, but I don’t believe so. I believe the very high pressures simply force materials into more compact arrangements of bonds.
- cshimmin 3y agoThe problem with this is that pressure is a scalar quantity. "Pressure along the z axis" does not make sense.
- naasking 3y agoGood point. The device being used is a diamond anvil cell [1], which is a uniaxial device and why I thought they were directly applying pressure along a single axis, but that's not quite how the device works. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diamond_anvil_cell https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diamond_anvil_cell