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The following major equipment is now operational:

I. High-pressure apparatus

• 5000 tonne multianvil press (25 GPa, 3000 K)
• 1200 tonne multianvil press (25 GPa, 3000 K)
• 1000 tonne multianvil press (25 GPa, 3000 K)
• 500 tonne multianvil press (20 GPa, 3000 K)
• 3 piston-cylinders (0.5" and 0.75"; 4 GPa, 2100 K)
• 1 piston cylinder (5 GPa, 2000 K)
• Cold-seal vessels (700 MPa, 1000 K, gas & H₂O), TZM vessels (300 MPa, 1400 K), rapid-quench equipment
• Internally-heated autoclave (1 GPa, 1800 K)

• 2 X-ray powder diffractometers
• Single-crystal X-ray cameras
• X-ray powder microdiffractometer
• 2 automated single-crystal X-ray diffractometers
• 2 Mössbauer spectrometers (1.5 - 1300 K)
• Mössbauer millispectrometer
• Variable pressure-temperature Mössbauer spectrometer
• FTIR spectrometer with IR microscope
• 200 kV analytical FEG transmission electron microscope
• 3 high-resolution solid-state NMR spectrometers (100, 200, 300 MHz)
• 2 Raman spectrometers
• FEG scanning electron microscope with BSE detector, EDS, EBSD and CL
• Cameca SX-50 electron microprobe; fully-automated with 10-crystal, 4 spectrometer configuration, BSE detector and capability for light elements
• ICP-AES sequential spectrometer
• Determination of water content by Karl-Fischer titration

• 2 calorimeters (77 - 1000 K scanning; 700 - 2200 K drop and scanning)
• 2 dilatometers (to 1800 K; viscosity by penetration, parallel-plate, fibre elongation and beam-bending; thermal expansivity measurements)
• Diamond anvil cells for single crystal X-ray diffraction, Mössbauer spectroscopy, Raman scattering, infrared and optical spectroscopy including facilities for hydrothermal studies
• 1-atm furnaces (to 2400 K, gas mixing) including apparatus for viscometry, densitometry and galvanic thermo-chemistry, centrifuge studies
• Rotation viscometer
• Paterson high-pressure and temperature deformation apparatus
• Solid medium Griggs-Blacic deformation apparatus
• 1-atm high-temperature creep apparatus
• Splat quencher
• 2 high frequency ultrasonic interferometers (crystalline and molten materials)
• Gigahertz ultrasonic interferometer and an interface to resistance-heated diamond-anvil cells
• Heating stage for fluid inclusion studies
• Impedance/gain-phase analyser for electrical conductivity studies
• Apparatus for in-situ measurements of thermal diffusivity at high P and T
• Internally heated autoclave for centrifuge studies

The Geoinstitut is provided with well equipped machine shops, electronic workshop and sample preparation laboratories. It has also access to the university computer centre.