Re: New Hydrogen Physics (?)

From: Franz Heymann (notfranz.heymann_at_btopenworld.com)
Date: 10/29/04


Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2004 21:30:01 +0000 (UTC)


"sanman" <manofsan@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> Thomas Lee Elifritz <crackpots@everywhere.net> wrote in message
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> > October 18, 2004
> >
> > http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0410408
> > Nature 431, 666 (2004)
> > http://www.nature.com/nature/links/041014/041014-11.html
> >
> > http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0410425
> > Nature 431, 669 (2004)
> >
> > Thomas Lee Elifritz
> > http://elifritz.members.atlantic.net
>
> Hiya Thomas,
>
> I was reading about the idea of Metastable Metallic Hydrogen (MSMH),
> which sounds like it could have promising applications even just as
a
> chemical rocket fuel.
>
> http://www-phys.llnl.gov/H_Div/GG/Nellis.html
>
> But what you're saying is that the phase system at the extreme
> pressure/density would be more complex, and there could be
> superconductive and/or superfluid liquid properties at those
> conditions too.
>
> So how we do get persistent MSMH anyway? Do we need a neutronium
> press?

What is neutronium?
What is a neutronium press?
Livermore had to compress Hydrogen to 1.4 Megabars to achieve the
desired phase transition.

> Will MSMH exist at substantially higher temperatures and pressures,
> like around STP?

Even at the low temperatures of the Livermore experiment the pressure
needed was one which can only be obtained for extremely brief times.

Franz



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