Rogue Stars and Planets As Agents In Solar System Formation!!!

Actually, what I read of that article said it produced
a paired ion couplet, which is extremely tight and at
an appropriate temperature, ie, somewhere under the
4000 degrees kelvin they were working with, would very
probably remain a metal, down to hard vacuum
pressures. Since, as the article pointed out, regular
metals don't have that double ionic bond but remain
stable at terrestrial temp/pressures, I predict
metallic H2 will also survive here. Now, if we could
just find a nice Metallic H2 mine somewhere,,,( riches
beyond averice)

Gary 7

> On 8/30/05, GARY ANSORGE
> >
> > I believe you're confusing the solid Hydrogen
> produced
> > in some experimental high pressure/low temp labs
> with
> > metallic, which is predicted to remain in it's
> > metallic state, unless it's heated above it's
> > transition temperature, which is currently
> unknown.
> >
> I'm not confusing anything. Metallic hydrogen is
> metallic hydrogen.
>
> http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/sci/A0858720.html
>
> "By compressing liquid hydrogen to nearly 2 million
> atmospheres pressure and
> a temperature of 4,400K, a team at the Lawrence
> Livermore National
> Laboratory created metallic hydrogen for a millionth
> of a second."
>
http://www.news.cornell.edu/Chronicle/96/4.4.96/hydrogen.html