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Just heard that bods with the metallic hydrogen have lost it, due to a lab mishap.
Small prize to whoever finds it, presumably. Possibly photo of it, and its chemical properties can be printed on milk cartons?
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"Most Wanted" posters, shirley ? |
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Or maybe a batch of those laminated home-made "Have you seen this dog/cat/ferret /tortoise/metastable crystalline physical state ?" signs, tied to lamp posts ? |
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FOUND YA!
Nope, I'm not Hydrogen, I'm Helium He He He He (in a
squeaky voice) |
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If knew what it answers to, I s'pose it would help? |
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Have they looked down the back of the sofa ? |
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Very likely metallic hydrogen is not stable when not under
extreme pressure. Which means the metallic hydrogen
sample, during the lab accident, spontaneously converted
to hydrogen gas. |
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Hmm, turning off all the lights in the lab, then shine a torch horizontally across the carpet? |
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Would metallic hydrogen be attracted to a magnet? When I'm watchmaking, and lose a millimetre-long spring or a half-millimetre screw, I just trawl the floor with a big magnet. I invariably recover something, and it's often the part I was looking for. |
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Next time they should simply attach a bit of U-235 to it
and use a Geiger counter. Velcro should do it. |
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The very first sample of Plutonium ever created by your species was put on a piece of cardboard, stuck down with sticky tape, placed in an envelope, and transported to Los Alamos in a physicist's wallet. |
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That was before it gave you cancer, of course ... |
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If I recall, the decay mode of plutonium is by alpha emission, so the protective cardboard was probably not necessary. |
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