What is metal hydrogen?

Metal hydrogen is a type of supercompressed hydrogen found in the cores of gas giants and stars. As hydrogen culminate in a column of the alkaline metal column of the periodic table, it has been known for some time that it has the potential to be metal, but only under extreme pressures. Metal hydrogen is crushed so narrowly that the atomic cores are separated only by the thick electron soup that flows between them. However, it is significantly less dense than a neutronium, where electrons are connected to the protons in hydrogen to produce neutrons. Like all metals, this is conductive and requires electricity to measure the presence of metallization.

This material was synthesized only under laboratory conditions only in 1996 in Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. There was only about a microsecond and required temperatures of thousands of degrees and pressure over a million atmosphere. This was a surprise, as it was previously thought that solid (very cold) for the production of metal hydrogen was required hydrogen. Previous experiments have undergone solid hydrogenPressures of up to 2.5 million atmosphere, with the absence of any detectable metallization, so an experiment involving the compression of hot hydrogen has been set to measure other material properties, not with the intention of producing metal hydrogen. Yet it was first made.

Although metal hydrogen produced in Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory was solid, it was theorized that it may be possible to create a liquid version, if even more pressures are used, approximately 4 million atmosphere. The calculations also determined that this material can be a superconductor at a room temperature, although this feature would be somewhat unnecessary for practical purposes, because the cost of compressing something to more than a million atmosphere is much greater than cooling something at absolute zero. However, there is little chance that it may be a metastable metal hydrogen - that is, it retains its phase, even if there is pressureremoved.

It is assumed that metal hydrogen exists in the cores of larger gas giants in our solar system: Jupiter and Saturn, as well as hydrogen near the core of the sun.