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High Pressure Research
An International Journal
Volume 6, 1991 - Issue 6
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Original Articles

High pressure ‘cell’ model of compressed methane

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Pages 357-362 | Received 24 Apr 1991, Published online: 30 Sep 2010
 

Abstract

The Thomas-Fermi method is used to treat self-consistently a model of compressed methane. Two assumptions underlying the treatment are (i) the use of spherical averaging of the proton potential about the C atom in the methane molecule and (ii) the compressed spherical ‘cell’ model. Within this framework, the equilibrium bond length of CH4 is calculated as a function of cell volume. The free space bond length given by this model is too large, and so results are presented for Re/Re(∞) versus cell volume. The volume is finally converted to an estimated pressure using an empirical equation of state. The relevance of the work to ices in planetary material is pointed out.

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