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Recent measurements of shock temperatures and laser-driven Hugoniot measurements of shocked liquid deuterium strongly indicate that molecular dissociation is important above 20 GPa. Since the effect of dissociation is small on the Hugoniot pressure up to the 30 GPa limit of conventional impact experiments, other methods must be used to test our understanding of the physics of highly compressed deuterium in this regime. We have recently performed experiments to measure the sound velocity of deuterium which test the isentropic compressibility, a derivative quantity. We used the shock overtake method to measure the shock velocity at 28 GPa. These preliminary data provide support for a recently developed molecular dissociation model.

Sound velocities in shocked liquid deuterium