Will solid hydrogen ever be a metal?

Peter P. Edwards and Friedrich Hensel
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Peter P. Edwards: School of Chemistry, The University of Birmingham
Friedrich Hensel: Fachbereich Chemie

Nature, 1997, vol. 388, issue 6643, 621-622

Abstract: At ultra-high pressures, liquid hydrogen becomes metallic. So should solid hydrogen, yet it stubbornly resists. A newly predicted spontaneous asymmetry of molecules in the solid may be the reason.

Date: 1997
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DOI: 10.1038/41645

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