Wendy Mao and Yu Lin, Stanford University (IMAGE)

Stanford University

Wendy Mao and Yu Lin, Stanford University

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Graduate student Yu Lin loads glassy carbon spheres into a sample chamber where they will be compressed by a pair of diamond anvils. Wendy Mao, assistant professor of Geological and Environmental Sciences, looks on.

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L.A. Cicero, Stanford News Service

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