Scientists initially made the metal form of hydrogen

Will we have future constructions made from Hydro alloy?

Physicists at the University of Edinburgh (Scotland) have initially figured out how to prepare metallic forms of hydrogen atoms - which exist only in gaseous form under normal conditions. This promises to change the entire history of materials research as well as the scientific world when Hydro is always rated as the simplest element but stable and the most durable links. .

Specifically, by compressing hydrogen gas molecules at pressures 3 million times higher than Earth's atmospheric pressure, scientists have brought hydrogen to a special state known as Phase V - which has never been It is now possible to prove that it exists. The theory of this special state of Hydro has been around since 1935, but scientists were unable to create this breakthrough, they only predicted that this "metal" has good electrode conductivity and Much exists on Jupiter as well as Saturn.

Scientists used extreme pressure to compress hydrogen into metal.

The head of the research team, Professor Eugene Gregoryanz, said: " The theory of using extremely high pressure to compress Hydro in the form of metal appeared 30 years ago but almost all real methods. Now they are rejected by the faculty, their new research has initially partly proved this even though the pressure conditions are much greater than what we estimate very much. the whole world".

Gregoryanz's group compressed compressed gas molecules with a pressure of up to 380 GigaPascal on an anvil - a familiar item in smithy furnaces - made of diamonds. For easy visualization, pressure of 1 GigaPascal is equivalent to 10,000 times the Earth's atmospheric pressure. This is also the largest artificial pressure ever made by scientists.

Such experimental conditions formed a chemical bond between hydrogen molecules and formed a new form of matter. Professor Eugene Gregoryanz explained that, at such pressure conditions, the gas molecules start to behave differently as they separate into single atoms and electrons also do not act as gaseous states. moreover, they will be like electrons in the metal atomic network.

Hydrogen is the simplest element but is stable and the strongest bond.

He also explained that, under normal conditions, hydrogen atoms will stick together in a couple of times on the basis of using shared pairs of electrons, which will determine the properties of the resulting molecules. gas properties. When these atoms break out under tremendous pressure, they tend to bind together into a fixed network - that is, the properties of metal atoms.

Although it is widely considered to have been historically successful, Professor Eugene Gregoryanz said he and his colleagues only "reached the surface of the iceberg" when the new state of Hydro durable because that's just the first stage. Even the diamond anvil was destroyed after this experiment, so the scientists had to find a more reliable and easier-to-produce material. In fact, a study by German scientists since 2012 found the metal trace of Hydro but the experiment proved to have "failed in an unacceptable way".