A simple pneumatic pressure attachment has been designed and fabricated for
Mao-Bell and National Bureau of Standard type diamond anvil cells (DACs).
The assembly can be fitted to the lever arm of the DAC for applying pressur
e on the diamonds and the pressure at the sample site has been calibrated a
gainst the gas dial using the equation of state of silver loaded in the DAC
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