Posted on 02/26/2017 8:33:17 PM PST by BenLurkin
Harvard scientists triumphantly announced that they'd created metallic hydrogen last month, but now it's suddenly gone.
Scientists hailed it as the holy grail of high pressure physics when they finally produced it in the lab: metallic hydrogen, a century after it was first theorized to exist. And now that sample, which had been held in a hyper refrigerated laboratory, has vanished into thin air, and scientists cant figure out why.
Reports indicate that the metallic hydrogen had been kept between a vice of two diamonds at huge pressures while being stored at 80 Kelvin, but something happened in the lab and the diamonds broke. Now, the metallic hydrogen, which was 10 micrometers in diameter, has disappeared. Its possible that its simply right under their noses, but theres also a possibility that it has turned back into a gas.
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Scott and McCoy took it back so as to not alter history.
Are you certain?
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10 microns of it wasn’t much to begin with...no big loss.
A rat snatched it. It was very shiny.
Very, very, extremely thin air.
It would be the most powerful chemical rocket known. We could build a single stage launch vehicle that could land on the moon. It is also theorized to be a room temperature superconductor, so all kinds of energy, transmission, and motor applications would be feasible or better performing.
Just like global warming. Here today and gone tomorrow.
Not easy or practical to maintain 72 million PSI.
Trump's fault.
If Obama was still President scientists would know that the metallic hydrogen vanished due to manmade climate change. Since Obama's gone and Trump has brought the world to a premature end, we'll never know what happened to it.
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That’s why they wete watching it. They were hoping it would stay crushed.
How much taxpayers' money do you need, Harvard Scientists? 500 million enough?
It’s called sublimation. A solid becomes a gas without a liquid phase.
It’s explained in Chem 1A.
For some reason, in that regard, Mylar is very superior to latex.
Both Mylar and latex are made of hydrocarbons, much larger molecules, but for some reason Mylar works better containing hydrogen.
Grammar (and spelling) is a racist construct of the Old Dead White Patriarchy.
http://www.truthrevolt.org/commentary/guardian-correct-grammar-racist-power-imbalance
So they say.
"Lakes" implies metallic hydrogen is a liquid, like mercury.
Do we even know if metallic hydrogen is a liquid or a solid?
Do we know if metallic hydrogen is like diamond? I.e., needs high pressure and temperature to make, but can exist at normal temperature and pressure. Or does it only exist under Jupiter-like conditions?
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