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Hydrogen becomes a superfluid at nanoscale, confirming 50-year-old prediction (phys.org)
45 points by bookofjoe 8 months ago | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments


I am super confused right now: "Hydrogen is typically impossible to study in liquid form — it becomes a solid at -259°C (-434°F)"

And yet if you Google "liquid hydrogen", there are hundreds of articles about liquid hydrogen...

I'm no chemist but ?!?. What am I missing?


I think the issue is that helium does not become a solid at 0k at 1atm pressure while hydrogen does. So one needs to do these experiments under less than 1 atm pressure when working with hydrogen or higher temperatures which may then not result in a superfluid state?




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