Metallic Hydrogen

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Metallic Hydrogen

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Some clever folks at Harvard have finally succeeded in creating metallic hydrogen. This has enormous implications for our future: better computers, faster transport, cheap and more efficient energy, etc.
https://us.yahoo.com/news/hydrogen-turn ... 55795.html
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Thank you for posting this Doc! I have been following the work on metallic hydrogen for years. One science writer claimed that not only would metallic hydrogen be a super conductor, but, he claimed if you go by bond-length and strength, properly made metallic H should be stronger and harder than diamond, because the atoms are smaller than carbon. But I would like to have this checked and calculated.

Hydrogen is the most abundant element/atom in the universe, too.
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SpyderEdgeForever wrote:Thank you for posting this Doc! I have been following the work on metallic hydrogen for years. One science writer claimed that not only would metallic hydrogen be a super conductor, but, he claimed if you go by bond-length and strength, properly made metallic H should be stronger and harder than diamond, because the atoms are smaller than carbon. But I would like to have this checked and calculated.

Hydrogen is the most abundant element/atom in the universe, too.
Since it is only theoretically stable at about room temperature it would not make a good knife blade. I wonder what kind of metallic properties it would have, though? Could it be shaped into objects? What would need to be done to alloy it with something to make it stable? Could it then be made into blades?
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