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Structure of densified vitreous silica: silicon and oxygen XANES spectra and multiple scattering calculations

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In this article, multiple scattering calculations using clusters of two shells around the oxygen and silicon atoms, respectively, are in good agreement with experimental absorption spectra and confirm mean Si-O-Si angles between 130 and 144° for these samples, and a decrease of the mean angle with densification.
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The decrease of the mean Si-O-Si angle in vitreous silica upon densification from 2.20 to 2.36 gcm-3 has been followed by oxygen and silicon K-edge XANES spectroscopy. Multiple scattering calculations using clusters of two shells around the oxygen and silicon atoms, respectively, are in good agreement with experimental absorption spectra and confirm mean Si-O-Si angles between 130 and 144° for these samples, and a decrease of the mean angle with densification. The experimental spectra also exhibit features due to scattering at outer (>2) shells around the photoabsorbers.

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Nanoscale chemical imaging of a working catalyst by scanning transmission X-ray microscopy

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Oxygen K-edge X-ray Absorption Spectra

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X-ray absorption near-edge structure (XANES) spectroscopy

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X-ray Raman scattering study of MgSiO3 glass at high pressure: Implication for triclustered MgSiO3 melt in Earth's mantle

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A Raman spectroscopic study of shock-wave densification of vitreous silica

TL;DR: In this article, the densification process in SiO2 glass induced by shock-wave compression up to 43.4 GPa was investigated by Raman spectroscopy, where the authors attributed the reduction of the average Si−O−Si angle to the collapse of the largest ring cavities.
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