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Scientists Have Finally Conquered the Task of Turning Hydrogen into Metal

It’s something that researchers have been trying to prove for the last 80 years, and finally, scientists at Sandia National Laboratories have managed to do it.  It may sound like a theory that is too far fetched to be true, but it certainly does work. The way in which was done was by taking an amount of deuterium (a hydrogen isotope) and using the machine to apply 3 million times the atmospheric pressure. Then, after just 200 nanoseconds, the liquid is transformed into metal.


Mike Desjarlais is the team’s leading theoretical physicist, and he commented, “The moment we got our first look at the data, we were very excited. After the first several experiments, we had begun to wonder if we would ever see it.” It just goes to show that perseverance is the key when it comes to science and eventually, the team got the result they were hoping for. As well as completing the feat of turning hydrogen into metal, the team has also changed the way in which many scientists think when it comes to the evolution of planets. For a long time, scientists have been using temperature to calculate the age of planets because they cool over time. However, now they know that hydrogen metallic-zation causes a rise in temperature, they can use this to produce more accurate results and is one reason why Saturn is a great deal warmer than its calculated age suggests.



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