Metallic hydrogen was first created on Earth

Scientists from Harvard created for the first time on Earth metallic hydrogen, a new material on our planet that its existence was predicted before 80 years.

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The team of Harvard researchers managed, as they claim, to compress hydrogen molecules with the help of synthetic diamonds, exerting enormous pressures of the order of 495 GPa (gigapascals), much greater than those exerted in of our planet and in thermoa little above the absolute zero, -270 οC, or 5,5 Kelvin or -450 degrees Fahrenheit.

As scientists increased the pressure, they began to observe the translucency hydrogen to become black. Finally, at 5 pressure millions of times our own air pressure, hydrogen gained reflection. Researchers showed this phenomenon as evidence that hydrogen atoms had acquired a normal 3D structure, such as a metallic object, thus obtaining a physical state that was first predicted by physicists Hillard Huntington and Eugene Wignerin 1935.

The discovery and observation of a metallic form of hydrogen will be important not only because it will solve a long-standing scientific mystery, but also for the material's potential. The new material has almost resistance to electricity, that is, it is the best conductor of electricity that exists on our planet. The scientists say in their paper that published online in Science magazine yesterday, that metallic hydrogen will be “an important material for the of the problems and may potentially revolutionize rocket technology as a powerful propellant."

In addition, such a material is metastable, which means it will remain metallic as the pressure that forced it to change form and gas becomes solid, goes down to normal levels. But switching from solid to gas again, through some other external influences, will release huge amounts of energy, revolutionizing missile technology.

Metallic hydrogen in liquid form is thought to be a key component of the giant planets Jupiter and Saturn, which the Juno spacecraft hopes to detect, according to NASA.

This is not the first time that scientists have claimed to have discovered metallic hydrogen. German scientists also made a similar statement to 2012, which proved untrue. That is why several physicists in different countries (USA, Britain, France), according to "Nature", said they were not convinced at all that metallic hydrogen was actually created and reserved until more experiments were made.

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