Scientists shocked: Super-rare metal mysteriously vanishes from lab

morningticker.com ^ | February 26, 2017 | Dan Taylor

[GrandJediMasterYoda]

Scott and McCoy took it back so as to not alter history.

[Celtic Conservative]

Are you certain?

CC

[BobL]

10 microns of it wasn’t much to begin with...no big loss.

[doorgunner69]

that sample, which had been held in a hyper refrigerated laboratory, has vanished into thin air, and scientists can’t figure out why.

[BradyLS]

A rat snatched it. It was very shiny.

[henbane]

. . . now that sample, which had been held in a hyper refrigerated laboratory, has vanished into thin air, and scientists can’t figure out why.

Very, very, extremely thin air.

[Vince Ferrer]

For what applications?

It would be the most powerful chemical rocket known. We could build a single stage launch vehicle that could land on the moon. It is also theorized to be a room temperature superconductor, so all kinds of energy, transmission, and motor applications would be feasible or better performing.

[taxesareforever]

Just like global warming. Here today and gone tomorrow.

[Olog-hai]

Not easy or practical to maintain 72 million PSI.

[piasa]

And now that sample, which had been held in a hyper refrigerated laboratory, has vanished into thin air, and scientists can’t figure out why.

Trump's fault.

If Obama was still President scientists would know that the metallic hydrogen vanished due to manmade climate change. Since Obama's gone and Trump has brought the world to a premature end, we'll never know what happened to it.

[gundog]

:)

[Vince Ferrer]

That’s why they wete watching it. They were hoping it would stay crushed.

[Texas Eagle]

Well, dammit, if they created it once they can create it again.

How much taxpayers' money do you need, Harvard Scientists? 500 million enough?

[ApplegateRanch]

[alpo]

It’s called sublimation. A solid becomes a gas without a liquid phase.
It’s explained in Chem 1A.

[KTM rider]

FAKE METAL NEWS !

[cynwoody]

Hydrogen is VERY small and difficult to contain with containers made of larger atoms and molecules.

For some reason, in that regard, Mylar is very superior to latex.

Both Mylar and latex are made of hydrocarbons, much larger molecules, but for some reason Mylar works better containing hydrogen.

[ApplegateRanch]

Grammar (and spelling) is a racist construct of the Old Dead White Patriarchy.

http://www.truthrevolt.org/commentary/guardian-correct-grammar-racist-power-imbalance

[Olog-hai]

So they say.

[cynwoody]

There's plenty of it - on Jupiter. Lakes of metallic hydrogen are theorized to exist.

"Lakes" implies metallic hydrogen is a liquid, like mercury.

Do we even know if metallic hydrogen is a liquid or a solid?

Do we know if metallic hydrogen is like diamond? I.e., needs high pressure and temperature to make, but can exist at normal temperature and pressure. Or does it only exist under Jupiter-like conditions?