Abstract
The structural behaviour of ammonium metavanadate, NH4VO3, under high pressures has been studied to 65 kbar using energy-dispersive synchrotron X-ray powder diffraction, and to 106 kbar by FTIR methods, in a diamond anvil cell. A reversible crystalline-to-disordered phase transition was found at 49 kbar. The transition is thought to be due to relative slipping of the vanadate chains parallel to their axes, the product being disordered, possibly amorphous, rather than crystalline because the process is hindered and the solid prevented from attaining periodicity by hydrogen bonding to ammonium ions.
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