“…Such experiments on isentropic expansion of shock-compressed samples make it possible to study a wide range of states from highly-compressed and heated condensed matter to rarefied gas and plasma. ) and initial temperatures (T 0 ) at an initial normal pressure (P 0 = 0.1 MPa): solid lines-results of calculations using the present model (curve H0 corresponds to the initial state of the liquid phase at T 0 = 673 K and ρ 00 = 9.89 g/cm 3 ; curves H1 to H6 correspond to the initial state of the solid phase at room temperature and ρ 00 = 9.8, 6.62, 5.1, 5, 4 and 3.44 g/cm 3 ); markers-experimental data (I1- [55]; I2- [56]; I3- [57]; I4- [58]; I5-[59]; I6- [60]; J1 to J6- [61], ρ 00 = 9.8, 6.62, 5.1, 5, 4 and 3.44 g/cm 3 , respectively; K1- [62], T 0 = 88 K, solid; K2- [62], T 0 = 673 K, liquid; K3- [64]; K4- [65]; K5- [66]; K6- [67]). P c ) and shock loading of samples of different initial densities and initial temperatures at an initial normal pressure (H0 to H6): T1 and T2-data from static experiments at high pressure and room temperature for the bcc phase (T1- [53,54]; T2- [51,52]); the rest of the designations are the same as in Figure 2.…”