Solidification of high-pressure medium daphne 7373

The solidification pressure of Daphne 7373, which is widely used as a pressure medium in high pressure studies, was examined at room temperature. Using a new generation clamp-type pressure cell, we found that Daphne 7373 solidifies at 2.2 GPa at room temperature. This is exactly on the natural extrapolation of the melting curve obtained at lower pressures and temperatures in our previous report. The solidification pressure of Daphne 7373 is twice as high as that of another well-known medium Fluorinert 77/70 (0.9 GPa). This allows us to hold hydrostatic pressure even in the newly developed BeCu–NiCrAl clamp-type pressure cell, which exceeds the limit of 1.5 GPa generated by a conventional BeCu cell.