X-ray and neutron scattering experiments of the new inorganic spin-Pei
erls compound show that below T-sp = 36 K an anomalous volume expansio
n is proportional to the superlattice intensity associated with lattic
e dimerization. Also reported is the pressure effect on this compound
which undergoes a phase transition around 13 GPa (room temperature). (
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