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Fig. 1: The raw and corrected data for three temperatures.

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Roy, P., Brubach, JB., Capitani, F. et al. Reply to: Absence of evidence of superconductivity in sulfur hydride in optical reflectance experiments. Nat. Phys. 18, 1036–1037 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41567-022-01694-w

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