The high-pressure phase of tellurium, Te-III, is found to have an incommensurate monoclinic structure, superspace group I(')2/m(0q0)s0, of a type previously unknown in the elements. Te-III is stable from 4.5(2) to 29.2(7) GPa; the previously reported transition to a distinct Te-IV phase at 10.6 GPa is not observed. The incommensurate wave vector of Te-III is strongly pressure dependent and varies in a strongly nonlinear way. Se-IV is found to be isostructural with Te-III.
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