Science@Harvard SEAS: Evidence of a First-Order Phase Transition to Metallic Hydrogen (AUDIO)

Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences

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We may have glimpsed liquid hydrogen abruptly changing into metallic hydrogen, which is the same stuff in the core of Jupiter.

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The Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences

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