From Theory to Reality: The Creation of Metallic Hydrogen (IMAGE)

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From Theory to Reality: The Creation of Metallic Hydrogen

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Image of diamond anvils compressing molecular hydrogen. At higher pressure the sample converts to atomic hydrogen, as shown on the right. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the Jan. 27 2017, issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by R.P. Dias at Harvard University in Cambridge, MA, and colleagues was titled, "Observation of the Wigner-Huntington transition to metallic hydrogen."

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R. Dias and I.F. Silvera

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