Posted on 02/26/2017 8:33:17 PM PST by BenLurkin
Harvard scientists triumphantly announced that they'd created metallic hydrogen last month, but now it's suddenly gone.
Scientists hailed it as the “holy grail” of high pressure physics when they finally produced it in the lab: metallic hydrogen, a century after it was first theorized to exist. 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.
Reports indicate that the metallic hydrogen had been kept between a vice of two diamonds at huge pressures while being stored at 80 Kelvin, but something happened in the lab and the diamonds broke. Now, the metallic hydrogen, which was 10 micrometers in diameter, has disappeared. It’s possible that it’s simply right under their noses, but there’s also a possibility that it has turned back into a gas.
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Diamonds are for- Well dang!
for later
Harvard Snowflake Society decided that metallic hydrogen is a cultural appropriation, making the other metals feel bad. So they went in and pulled the plug.
Researchers from China are CHEAP, huh..?
OH NO THEY’RE NOT.
Doctor Octopus stole it for his mad exoeriments.
Not saying it was aliens, but...
This stinks. Metallic hydrogen, if it were stable, would be very useful.
Hydrogen is VERY small and difficult to contain with containers made of larger atoms and molecules.
Somebody must have broke in and stole it.
If it were a valid process, then it can be replicated. Otherwise no Nobel prize for you.
For what applications?
Have they looked to see if a grad student has it for sale on ebay?
They probably never had it. The claim was widely disputed anyhow.
The same thing happens to my Häagen-Dazs ice cream. I put a container in the freezer and the next day it just vanishes.
I asked my wife and she agrees it is a complete mystery.
Gosh, where did hydrogen go? LOL. You have already breathed it morons.
Just as appropriate. Don’t stop believing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1k8craCGpgs
Meth addict sold it at the scrap metal yard.
[[Scientists shocked: Super-rare metal mysteriously vanishes from lab]]
Well DUH! That’s why it’s ‘super rare’- it keeps vanishing!
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