LCLS lets researchers explore superheating and limits of solid-state matter By firing the world’s most powerful x-ray laser at a 50-nm-thick layer of gold, researchers superheated it more than 14x its melting point—and discovered it survives the entropy...

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Gold Does Something Unexpected When Superheated Past Its Melting Point Gold remains perfectly solid when briefly heated beyond previously hypothesized limits, a new study reports, which may mean a complete reevaluation of how matter behaves under extreme conditions.

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Humans have used billions of such machines for cooling dwellings and workspaces. Demand for them increases with global heating, which in turn exacerbates heating by increasing the demand for electricity derived from fossil fuels.’ #superheating #polycrises