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Out of curiosity, what made you ask this? Is there something about Hydrogen that would elicit such a question, or is that just a question that should be asked
by michaelcampbell 10y ago
Out of curiosity, what made you ask this? Is there something about Hydrogen that would elicit such a question, or is that just a question that should be asked of any new material?
As I said, I'm genuinely curious. I'm not even an amateur here, but I wouldn't have thought to ask this at all.
- raziel2702 10y agoIt's predicted to be a high temperature semiconductor.
- rhubarbquid 10y agoMetallic hydrogen was theorized to be a superconductor in a 1968 paper: http://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.21.1748 http://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.21....
- davesque 10y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metallic_hydrogen#Superconductivity https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metallic_hydrogen#Superconduct...
- gpvos 10y agoThe article states that solid metallic hydrogen is hypothesized to be stable at room temperature and superconducting.
- adrianratnapala 10y agoA high temperature superconductor at 500GPa is probably even less practical than a cryogenic superconductor. So for this to be exciting we first need the even more exciting news that MH is metastable so that we can release the pressure. Then we can find out if we have a high temperature, high explosive, superconductor. Even that is probably not of practical use. But by gum! It'd be fun.