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Giant laser heats solid gold to 14 times its melting point A 50 nm thick sheet of solid gold was heated well beyond a theoretical limit, suggests new study — plus, what researchers think about ...
Researchers have been able to heat up a sample of solid gold to over 14 times its melting temperature for a fraction of a second, bypassing a theoretical limit known as the entropy catastrophe.
Superheated gold stays solid well past its predicted melting point Heating that lasted only trillionths of a second raised a gold sample’s temperature to 19,000 K without melting it, a study ...
Wafer-thin sheets of gold shot briefly with lasers can be heated up to 14 times their melting point while remaining solid, far beyond the theoretical limit, raising the possibility that some ...
Physicists superheated gold to 14 times its melting point, disproving a long-standing prediction about the temperature limits of solids ...
Already, their innovative method is changing our understanding of the world: In an experimental debut, the team superheated solid gold far beyond the theoretical limit, unexpectedly overturning ...
It’s been 25 years since work crews last coated the massive gold pioneer statue atop the Oregon Capitol Building in Salem with 23-karat gold leaf. And it’s been a rough quarter century of ...
This is the fourth time the massive 87-year-old statue atop the Oregon Capitol Building is undergoing a re-gild.
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Gold prices extended declines and fell nearly 1% on Thursday after upbeat U.S. economic data aided the Federal Reserve’s cautious stance on resuming monetary easing this year.