We have developed a simple and time-efficient cryogenic loading technique for diamond anvil cells (DACs) using a glovebox. By using liquid nitrogen as a thermal reservoir to condense gaseous samples into the solid state, manually inserting the sample into an empty gasket, and then closing the DAC to seal a sample, we have easily loaded high-purity samples of carbon dioxide in less than 1 h. This technique has significant advantages over currently used methods to load cryogenic solids in both cost and time and can be used for a wide variety of solids with melting temperatures above 77 K.
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