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Metallic hydrogen
On opening a new aggregate state of hydrogen-like in their properties predicted in the theory of metallic hydrogen (high temperature superconductor), said the Chinese and British physicists in an article that was published in the journal Nature.

As recalled by a specialist from the University of Edinburgh (Scotland) Eugene Grigoryants in the 30s of the last century, scientists have suggested that hydrogen (a colorless, flammable gas or liquid), compressed to extremely high pressures, can move into a new phase, resembling in its properties the metal.

Because of this “conversion”, according to the calculations of physicists, a simple substance, and the first element of the periodic table may have superconducting properties even at room temperature, according to RIA Novosti.

Earlier, the scientists managed to achieve at best a so-called “Phase IV», in which hydrogen is compressed to a pressure of 2.2 million atmospheres, combined into a kind of “sheets” of hexagons. However, as stated in the material Nature, scientists now discovered a fifth phase of hydrogen (increasing the pressure to the bar in the 3.2 million atmospheres), which brings the hydrogen in its properties to metals, but not to semiconductors as “Phase IV».

The transition element in the new state spodvignul experts on further experiments, the researchers plan to help compress the new models of the substance to an even higher pressures and to obtain metallic hydrogen.