World's Only Sample Of Metallic Hydrogen Disappears In Lab
Source: Tech Times
World's Only Sample Of Metallic Hydrogen Disappears In Lab
26 February 2017, 2:21 am EST By Allan Adamson Tech Times
Harvard researchers revealed last month that they had finally created metallic hydrogen, a form of hydrogen that can superconduct electricity without resistance and at room temperature, achieving the so called "holy grail of high-pressure physics."
Only Sample Of Metallic Hydrogen Disappeared
The creation of this material is something that scientists have been aiming for over the past eight decades. The material produced is also the only known sample of metallic hydrogen on Earth. Researchers, however, reported that the sample has disappeared.
The metallic hydrogen the researchers created was stored in a laboratory at a temperature close to absolute zero in a diamond vice but now, researchers said that sample was either misplaced or degraded.
"It's either someplace at room pressure, very small, or it just turned back into a gas," said Isaac Silvera, natural sciences professor at Harvard who is also one of the researchers involved in the experiment, adding that they do not know what happened to the material.
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