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From Neatorama:
The first diamond anvil cell at the NIST Museum, from The Diamond Anvil Pressure Cell by Gasper J. Piermarini and Stanley Block. The Diamond Anvil is a simple lab device that scientists use to create pressures as great as those found at the center of the Earth. It's called that because it actually uses diamonds - one of the hardest substances known to man - to squeeze things at pressures as high as 300 gigapascals or 43,500,000 psi.
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