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Hydrogen turned into metal in stunning act of alchemy
- xupybd 10y agoDoes anyone know if it is meta-stable, or is that just where the research is heading?
- rsfern 10y agoLooks like it'll be a few months before we know if it's metastable at ambient pressure; they're planning to do the pressure release experiments at one of the national labs [0]. Here's the preprint [1] of the Science paper [2], and the HN discussion [3]. [0]: http://harvardmagazine.com/2017/01/metallic-hydrogenhttp://harvardmagazine.com/2017/01/metallic-hydrogen http://harvardmagazine.com/2017/01/metallic-hydrogenhttp://h... [1]: https://arxiv.org/abs/1610.01634https://arxiv.org/abs/1610.01634 https://arxiv.org/abs/1610.01634https://arxiv.org/abs/1610.0... [2]: http://science.sciencemag.org/content/early/2017/01/25/science.aal1579http://science.sciencemag.org/content/early/2017/01/25/science.aal1579 http://science.sciencemag.org/content/early/2017/01/25/scien... [3]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12875868https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12875868 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12875868https://news.yc...