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Published June 15, 1982 | public
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The temperature of shock-compressed water

Abstract

Temperatures from 3300–5200 K were measured in liquid H2O shocked to 50–80 GPa (500–800 kbar). A six-channel, time-resolved optical pyrometer was used to perform the measurements. Good agreement with the data is obtained by calculating the temperature with a volume-dependent Grüneisen parameter derived from double-shock data and a heat capacity at constant volume of 8.7 R per mol of H2O.

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Copyright © 1982 American Institute of Physics. (Received 26 October 1981; accepted 12 March 1982) We wish to thank R.J. Trainor and M.B. Boslough for providing us with the results of their measurements of the spectral losses at the turning mirror and for several helpful discussions about the analysis of the data. We wish to acknowledge D.E. Bakker, C.D. Wozynski, H.R. Martinez, and J. Chmielewski for their assistance in firing the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory two-stage, light-gas gun. Work performed under the auspices of the U.S. Department of Energy by the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory under contract W-7405-ENG-48.

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