The shocking truth: metallic hydrogen

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A team of scientist at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California have discovered that hydrogen can be compressed into a metal. The conversion of hydrogen to metal lasts only a fraction of a second, but in that time the gas exhibits all the properties that define a metal.

Primary Metal Manufacturing, PRIMARY METAL INDUSTRIES, Metals, Research, Hardening (Metalworking), Metals (Materials), Hydrogen

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Truth and consequences: faction vies with fiction among this summer's talked-about novels

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Summer 1996's fare of English language fiction includes works from the US, England and Nigeria that are both entertaining and informative. Descriptions and criticisms of books by Jay McInerney, A.S. Byatt, Ben Okri, Jane Mendelsohn, Mary Kay Zuraleff and others are presented.

Criticism and interpretation, Fiction, The Last of the Savages (Book), Babel Tower (Book), Dangerous Love (Book), I Was Amelia Earhart (Book), The Frequency of Souls (Book), Fremder (Book), Love, Again (Book), The Woman who Walked into Doors (Book)

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