“This is the holy grail of high-pressure physics,” Harvard physicist Isaac Silvera, one of the study's authors, said in a statement. “It’s the first-ever sample of metallic hydrogen on Earth, so when you’re looking at it, you’re looking at something that’s never existed before.”
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Advance in high-pressure physics | Harvard Gazette
Observation of the Wigner-Huntington transition to metallic hydrogen | Science
U.S. scientists create metallic hydrogen, a possible superconductor, ending quest | Reuters
Observation of the Wigner-Huntington transition to metallic hydrogen | Science
U.S. scientists create metallic hydrogen, a possible superconductor, ending quest | Reuters
