“…To determine the experimental pressure by the ruby fluorescence method (Mao et al 1978), a couple of tiny ruby balls were loaded with the sample. The experimental techniques used here were almost identical to those reported in Liu et al (2008), with the only exceptions that an online CCD detector rather than an image plate was used to collect the X-ray diffraction patterns and longer data-collecting times (20 min) were used. The hexagonal unit-cell parameters of the carbonated hydroxylapatites at different pressures were calculated by refining the unit cells using the diffraction peaks 200,111,002,102,210,211,112,300,202,301,212,310,311,113,203,222,312,123,321,410,402, and 004, whose positions were determined by full spectrum refinement of powder X-ray patterns.…”