| Pressuring oxygen
to turn red
In a red, high-pressure
form of solid oxygen, oxygen molecules pair up into four-atom units.
References:
Gorelli, F.A., et
al. 1999. The e phase of solid oxygen: Evidence of an O4
molecule lattice. Physical Review Letters 83(Nov. 15):4093.
Further Readings:
Shimizu, K., et
al. 1998. Superconductivity in oxygen. Nature 393(June
15):767.
Wu, C. 1998.
Oxygen gets superconducting powers. Science News 154(July
18):47.
Sources:
Federico A.
Gorelli
European Laboratory for Nonlinear Spectroscopy
University of Florence
Largo Enrico Fermi 2
I-50125 Firenze
Italy
Web site: http://www.lens.unifi.it/
From Science
News, Vol. 156, No. 23, December 4, 1999, p. 367. Copyright ©
1999, Science Service.
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