“…In contrast, the Cr 2 Mo 3 O 12 peaks start to become progressively diffuse above 5.5 GPa (scan 54), indicating the onset of disorder or amorphization. Many NTE materials have been reported to amorphize under pressure (Huang, 1998; Perottoni and da Jornada, 1998; Garg et al, 2001, 2005b; Liu et al, 2001, 2002; Secco et al, 2001, 2002a,b; Arora et al, 2004, 2005; Karmakar et al, 2004; Mukherjee et al, 2004; Paraguassu et al, 2004; Varga et al, 2005b; Gates et al, 2006; Keen et al, 2007; Catafesta et al, 2008; Cetinkol et al, 2009; Baiz et al, 2012; Torres Dias et al, 2013; Salke et al, 2018), especially under non-hydrostatic conditions, as their open frameworks allow for volume-reducing rotations of the constituent polyhedra. Under non-hydrostatic pressure, such random reorientations can become “frozen in” at relatively low pressures, resulting in progressive loss of long range order.…”