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Metallic hydrogen finally made in lab at mind-boggling pressure
Home News Physics
Daily news | 26 January 2017
Metallic hydrogen finally made in lab at mind-boggling pressure
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NASA has mentioned the use in rockets over five years ago.
NASA
Metallic Hydrogen: A Game Changing Rocket Propellant
Isaac Silvera
Harvard University
Atomic metallic hydrogen, if metastable at ambient pressure and temperature could be used as the most powerful chemical rocket fuel, as the atoms recombine to form molecular hydrogen. This light-weight high-energy density material would revolutionize rocketry, allowing single-stage rockets to enter orbit and chemically fueled rockets to explore our solar system.
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