At low pressures, the liquid deuterium is transparent to light – which means that it is an insulator. As the pressure rose to about 150 GPa, the liquid absorbed light and became opaque. Then, at about ...

Scientists in the US (Sandia Labs) and Germany (Max Planck Institute for Chemistry) have successfully transformed liquid deuterium into a metal at pressures rivalling those at the center of our own ...

In order to observe a liquid metal crossing over to a plasma, the LLE researchers started off with the liquid metal deuterium, which displayed the classical properties of a liquid.

In order to work, it relied on a fission explosion that would trigger fusion in liquid deuterium, a heavy hydrogen isotope. At 7:15 a.m. local time on Elugelab Island, ...

In April of 1946 about 30 scientists attended a top-secret, three-day conference at Los Alamos, to review the work that had been completed at the weapons laboratory on the hydrogen bomb during ...

If such a state of deuterium should exist at the reported density of about 100,000 g/cm3, it would greatly facility the ignition of a thermonuclear detonation wave in pure deuterium, by placing the ...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Through laser experiments, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory physicists determined that deuterium, an isotope of hydrogen, turns into a metal at a higher density than ...

The secret lies in the ratio of two specific elements. Scientists have observed something unexpected in Venus' atmosphere — an increase in the level of deuterium relative to hydrogen. Okay, sure ...

One out of 6420 hydrogen atoms, on average, is a deuterium isotope. Deuterium isotopes are distributed in molecules that contain hydrogen, including, importantly, in all forms of water – also water in ...

In April of 1946 about 30 scientists attended a top-secret, three-day conference at Los Alamos, to review the work that had been completed at the weapons laboratory on the hydrogen bomb during ...