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The ac electrical properties of sulfur were measured at pressures from 20 to 50 GPa. The loss tangent vs. frequency data indicate dielectric anomalies in the pressure range of structural transformations: tanS rises by about one order of magnitude as the frequency decreases from 0.8 to 0.4 kHz and by a factor of more than 2 in the range 3–10 kHz.
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Gunicheva, Y.A., Babushkin, A.N., Volkova, Y.Y. et al. Dielectric relaxation in sulfur at very high pressures. Inorg Mater 36, 140–142 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02758015
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