The FT-infrared spectra of monocalcium monohydrate, Ca(H2PO4)(2). H2O3
have been measured as a function of pressure up to 50 kbar. A phase t
ransition occurs at 18 kbar. The Lippincott-Schroeder model for the hy
drogen bond has been used to explain the pressure dependence of the vi
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