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Gold remains solid at extreme temperatures, challenging thermodynamic laws and offering new insights for material design.
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New Scientist on MSNGold can be heated to 14 times its melting point without melting
With fast heating, sheets of gold can shoot past the theoretical maximum temperature a solid can have before it melts – ...
Heating that lasted only trillionths of a second raised a gold sample’s temperature to 19,000 K without melting it, a study ...
Another (and, in our view, more important) source of energy for life on Iceheim is the heat coming from its core, underneath ...
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Daily Meal on MSNWhat Sets Beef Tallow Apart From Beef Fat?
Beef tallow and beef fat are similar substances and are both useful in the kitchen, but how do they differ? Let's explore ...
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ScienceAlert on MSNGold Does Something Unexpected When Superheated Past Its Melting Point
The international team of scientists behind the study used intense, super-short laser blasts to push thin fragments of gold ...
Due to extreme temperatures and the dryness of Mars, it's thought to be impossible for liquid water to form on the planet's ...
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IFLScience on MSNSolid Gold Superheated To 14 Times Its Melting Point, Bypassing The "Entropy Catastrophe"
This is the so-called entropy catastrophe. This critical temperature, where a superheated solid and a liquid have the same ...
If you want to feel like you're eating dessert for breakfast, mix up a custard, dunk some bread in it, and make French toast!
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Melting Crayons with the Power of the Sun
Adam Sherwinski teaches ciLiving host, Jaclyn Friedlander how to melt crayons using the sun In this fun and colorful science ...
Research into brines suggests that frost-covered regions are the most promising candidates for future Martian habitability ...
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ZME Science on MSNScientists Superheated Gold to 14 Times Its Melting Point and It Remained Solid
Using the Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS) at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory in California, the team blasted the ...
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