High-Pressure Refractive Indices of NaCl, KCl, CaO, SrO, and MgO Reveal the Dependence of Anion Polarizability on Coordination Number and Bond Length

Konstantin Solovev, Xiangdong Li, Björn Winkler +2

Several alkali chlorides and alkaline-earth oxides adopt the B1 structure at ambient conditions and transform to B2 under compression, allowing to change coordination number and ca…