An analogous, high-pressure phase transition from CaCl 2-type ϵ-FeOOH (Figure 1a) to pyrite-type FeO 2 H (Figure 1b) was discovered by high-pressure experimentalists in the past few years, but the stoichiometry and properties of this phase remain contested (Hu et al., 2016, 2017; Liu et al., 2017; Nishi et al., 2017; L. Yuan et al., …