“…High-pressure Brillouin scattering can be used to probe acoustic velocities, which yield the determinations of elastic constants, bulk modulus, the refractive index, and the equation of state of materials. 2 Recently, we had developed high-pressure Brillouin spectroscopy for molecular single crystals grown in a DAC: 3,4 A complete mapping of the acoustic velocities in the various crystal directions, the refractive index, and the full set of adiabatic elastic constants can be exactly determined with in situ identification of the crystal orientation at each pressure by analyzing the observed angular dependence of acoustic velocities. This elaborate method has been applied to an important group of simple molecular solid phase encountered first at room temperature with increasing pressure: H 2 S, 3,5 CO 2 , 6 H 2 O, 7-9 CH 4 , 10 Kr, 11 and NH 3 .…”