Demonstration of X-ray Thomson scattering as diagnostics for miscibility in warm dense matter.

Miscibility-driven phase transitions in compressed matter are very important for planetary modeling for two reasons: (i) they may be significant enough to define layer boundaries prohibiting full convective mixing within the planet and, thus, strongly influence the mass distribution inside planets 6 and (ii) heavier components created by demixing will liberate gravitational energy by precipitation and, thus, may strongly modify the energy balance of the planets.

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