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GPAGrade Point Average
GPAGlobal Political Agreement (Zimbabwean reform agreement)
GPAGreyhound Pets of America
GPAGovernment Procurement Agreement (World Trade Organization)
GPAGewerkschaft der Privatangestellten (Vienna, Austria)
GPAGas Processors Association
GPAGuam Power Authority
GPAGeneral Plan Amendment
GPAGigapascal
GPAGallons Per Acre
GPAGlycophorin A
GPAGlobal Programme on AIDS
GPAGraphics Performance Accelerator
GPAGlobal Program of Action (for the Protection of the Marine Environment Land basesd Activities)
GPAGeorgia Press Association (Atlanta, GA)
GPAGreater Pittsburgh Area
GPAGuyana Press Association
GPAGeneric Pharmaceutical Association
GPAGross Production Average (baseball statistic)
GPAGladstone Port Authority (QLD Australia)
GPAGovernment Property Administrator
GPAGold Prospectors Association
GPAGeneral Power of Appointment (asset management)
GPAGas Producers Association
GPAGas Purchase Agreement
GPAGay Pilots Association
GPaGlycogen Phosphorylase A
GPAGovernmental and Public Affairs
GPAGlobal Project Authorization (JSF project)
GPAGrand Prix Association
GPAGroup Psychological Abuse Scale
GPAGeneral Purpose Analysis
GPAGeorgia Perinatal Association
GPAGraduate Pledge Alliance
GPAGeneral Partitioning Algorithm
GPAGravida Para Aborta
GPAGreen Point Average
GPAGuidance Platform Assembly
GPAGeorgia Association of Planetariums
GPAGeophysical Altimeter
GPAGrowth Premium Analysis (trading theory)
GPAGroup Personal Accident (insurance)
GPAGreat Path Academy (Manchester, CT)


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As the researchers lowered the temperature to 130 kelvins (around-143[degrees] Celsius) and held the pressure around one gigapascal (almost 10,000 atmospheres), disordered hydrogen bonds snapped into an ordered, tight conformation to create ice XV.
Barsoum of Drexel University in Philadelphia and his coworkers describe repeatedly putting cylinders of the new ceramic under stresses of 1 gigapascal, or about 10,000 times atmospheric pressure.
By slanting the anvil slightly, they created a steep gradient across the sample as they increased the pressure 1 gigapascal -- 10,000 times atmospheric pressure -- per minute.
 
 
 
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