PT-phase diagram of ammonium bromide

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Ammonium bromide is a fundamental ionic solid that finds practical use, industrially, as a highly-effective flame retardant and also as an intermediary source of bromide in pharmaceutical preparations. It is reported to possess six solid phases, under non-ambient pressures and temperatures, and these can be divided into three groups – those that show i) ferro-type (F) ordering of the NH4+ cation, ii) anti-ferro-type (AF) ordering or, iii) disorder, where the molecules tumble in a plastic phase. Almost no work has been carried out on exploring the wider phase diagram as a function of simultaneous non-ambient pressure and temperature. We aim to identify the location of pressure-temperature phase boundaries - literature studies predict an AF --> F --> AF ordering sequence at low temperature, with increasing pressure, and we will seek to determine if this re-emergent AF behaviour exists.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.99689554
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/99689554
Provenance
Creator Dr Christopher Ridley; Dr Anna Herlihy; Dr Nicholas Funnell; Dr Craig Bull
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2021
Rights CC-BY Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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Contact isisdata(at)stfc.ac.uk
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Resource Type Dataset
Discipline Chemistry; Fine Arts, Music, Theatre and Media Studies; Humanities; Natural Sciences; Theater
Temporal Coverage Begin 2018-11-15T10:00:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2018-11-19T06:10:47Z