Materials may deform permanently under pressure, but it's difficult to guess exactly what will happen to their structure at the atomic level. A new model, and a powerful parameter, might allow firm predictions to be made.
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Zimmerman, J. Plastic parameter. Nature 418, 285–286 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1038/418285a
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