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Hydrogen gas is insulating matter. Ionized hydrogen is conductive matter. Too bad we don't have metallic hydrogen. It would be a solid conductor, just like
by wbeaty 10y ago
Hydrogen gas is insulating matter. Ionized hydrogen is conductive matter.
Too bad we don't have metallic hydrogen. It would be a solid conductor, just like any other metal.
"Conductor" actually means "contains mobile charges." Conductor doesn't mean "a hollow pipe which electricity flows through." Conductors are more like long, narrow ponds. They're made of 'electric fluid,' so if we have a ring-shaped pond, we can push the water along so it starts moving in a complete circuit, like a drive-belt.
- lisivka 10y agoWe have: On October 5th 2016, Ranga Dias and Isaac F. Silvera of Lyman Laboratory of Physics, Harvard University released the first experimental evidence that solid metallic hydrogen has been synthesized in the laboratory. It took 495 GPa pressure to create. The sample is being held in the cryostat in liquid nitrogen.
- wbeaty 10y agoCool! They can then check the possibility that, once formed, it remains stable at low pressure.