Comment on "Observation of the Wigner-Huntington transition to metallic hydrogen"
Alexander F Goncharov1,2, Viktor V Struzhkin3
1Key Laboratory of Materials Physics, Institute of Solid State Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Hefei, China. agoncharov@carnegiescience.edu vstruzhkin@carnegiescience.edu.
Abstract:
Dias and Silvera (Research Article, 17 February 2017, p. 715) report on the observation of the Wigner-Huntington transition to metallic hydrogen at 495 gigapascals at 5.5 and 83 kelvin. Here, we show that the claim of metallic behavior is not supported by the presented data, which are scarce, contradictory, and do not prove the presence of hydrogen in the high-pressure cavity.
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