{"id":113188,"date":"2020-09-19T20:23:33","date_gmt":"2020-09-20T03:23:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/09\/why-metallic-hydrogen-is-the-holy-grail-of-high-pressure-physics"},"modified":"2020-09-19T20:23:33","modified_gmt":"2020-09-20T03:23:33","slug":"why-metallic-hydrogen-is-the-holy-grail-of-high-pressure-physics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/09\/why-metallic-hydrogen-is-the-holy-grail-of-high-pressure-physics","title":{"rendered":"Why Metallic Hydrogen Is the Holy Grail of High Pressure Physics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/FYOuQ84-6Z0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Making hydrogen a metal takes lot of pressure. But after a group of scientist\u2019s lost the world\u2019s first sample, the pressure is really on.<\/p>\n<p>Is Jupiter the Reason for Life on Earth? \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/nsGRvnPL95I\">https:\/\/youtu.be\/nsGRvnPL95I<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Settling Arguments About Hydrogen With 168 Giant Lasers<br \/>\n<iframe class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" title=\"Settling Arguments About Hydrogen With 168 Giant Lasers\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/svc\/oembed\/html\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2F2018%2F08%2F16%2Fscience%2Fmetallic-hydrogen-lasers.html#?secret=tGOr4W3PPF\" data-secret=\"tGOr4W3PPF\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><br \/> \u201cWith gentle pulses from gigantic lasers, scientists at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California transformed hydrogen into droplets of shiny liquid metal. Their research, reported on Thursday in the journal Science, could improve understanding of giant gas planets like Jupiter and Saturn whose interiors are believed to be awash with liquid metallic hydrogen.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>What in the World Is Metallic Hydrogen?<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/39370-what-is-bizarre-metallic-hydrogen.html\">https:\/\/www.space.com\/39370-what-is-bizarre-metallic-hydrogen.html<\/a><br \/> \u201cOn Earth, as we\u2019ve seen, hydrogen\u2019s behavior is straightforward. But Jupiter isn\u2019\u2019t Earth, and the hydrogen found in abundance within and beneath the great bands and swirling storms of its atmosphere can be pushed beyond its normal limits.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Insulator-metal transition in dense fluid deuterium<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/science.sciencemag.org\/content\/361\/6403\/677\">http:\/\/science.sciencemag.org\/content\/361\/6403\/677<\/a><br \/> \u201cThe conditions in which hydrogen disassociates and becomes an atomic metal occur in high-energy-density environments, such as the interiors of giant planets and nuclear explosions. Celliers et al. trained 168 lasers on deuterium samples at the National Ignition Facility to measure the pressure and temperature conditions of the hydrogen transition.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>____________________<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/09\/why-metallic-hydrogen-is-the-holy-grail-of-high-pressure-physics\">Continue reading \u201cWhy Metallic Hydrogen Is the Holy Grail of High Pressure Physics\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Making hydrogen a metal takes lot of pressure. But after a group of scientist\u2019s lost the world\u2019s first sample, the pressure is really on. 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