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Would the pressures in a Jovian not be enough to form metallic hydrogen?
by mmastrac 10y ago
Would the pressures in a Jovian not be enough to form metallic hydrogen?
- zeristor 10y agoBy Jove?!
- sho 10y agoYour attempt at humour has been rightly sanctioned, but you weren't all that far from the mark. Jove is another name for the roman god Jupiter, and as such a Jovian planet is one that resembles Jupiter - ie. large gas giants, where metallic hydrogen is certainly thought to exist in nature. Not by Jove - inside Jove.
- JoshTriplett 10y agoTo get solid metallic hydrogen, you'd need both high pressure and low temperatures; in the celestial bodies that can provide the former, the latter seems unlikely.
- sixbrx 10y agoJupiter is indeed believed to have a liquid metallic hydrogen core, which is the source of its enormous magnetic field: https://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2011/09aug_juno3/ https://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2011/0...