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Solid hydrogen

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Identifying the atomic structures of the different phases of molecular solid hydrogen is extremely challenging, because hydrogen atoms interact with X-rays very weakly and only small samples of solid hydrogen can be achieved in
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of these structures and hence to obtain a theoretical pressure-temperature phase diagram that is in reasonable quantitative agreement with experiment. On this basis, Phase II is believed to be a molecular structure of
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calculations have been used to search for candidate atomic structures for each phase. These candidate structures have low free energies and Raman spectra in agreement with the experimental spectra.
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At low temperatures and at pressures up to around 400 GPa (3,900,000 atm), hydrogen forms a series of solid phases formed from discrete H
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of samples. Furthermore, atomic structures can be inferred from a combination of experimental Raman spectra and first-principles modelling.
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symmetry consisting of flat layers of molecules in a distorted hexagonal arrangement; and Phase IV is (or is similar to) a structure of
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methods together with a first-principles treatment of anharmonic vibrational effects have then been used to obtain the relative
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in 1899 and published with the title "Sur la solidification de l'hydrogène" (English: On the freezing of hydrogen) in the
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symmetry, consisting of alternate layers of strongly bonded molecules and weakly bonded graphene-like sheets.
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occurs at low temperatures and pressures, and consists of a hexagonal close-packed array of freely rotating H
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molecules are no longer able to rotate freely. If the pressure is further increased at low temperature, a
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N. D. Drummond, B. Monserrat, J. H. Lloyd-Williams, P. Lopez Rios, C. J. Pickard and R. J. Needs (2015).
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of 14.01 K (−259.14 °C; −434.45 °F). It was collected for the first time by
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H.-K. Mao & R. J. Hemley (1994). "Ultrahigh-pressure transitions in solid hydrogen".
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occurs at a temperature of a few hundred kelvin at a range of pressures above 220 GPa.
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R. T. Howie, C. L. Guillaume, T. Scheler, A. F. Goncharov and E. Gregoryanz (2012).
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is encountered at about 160 GPa. Upon increasing the temperature, a transition to a
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occurs at up to 110 GPa. Phase II is a broken-symmetry structure in which the H
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molecules. Upon increasing the pressure at low temperature, a transition to
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Melting Characteristics and Bulk Thermophysical Properties of Solid Hydrogen
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provides very limited information about the structures. Nevertheless,
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J. M. McMahon, M. A. Morales, C. Pierleoni and D. M. Ceperley (2012).
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symmetry; Phase III is (or is similar to) a structure of
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Properties of solid hydrogen at very low temperatures
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can be detected by looking for abrupt changes in the
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Index

solid
hydrogen
melting point
James Dewar
Annales de Chimie et de Physique
diamond anvil cells
X-ray diffraction
phase transitions
Raman spectra
Density functional theory
Quantum Monte Carlo
Gibbs free energies
Compressed hydrogen
Liquid hydrogen
Metallic hydrogen
Slush hydrogen
Timeline of hydrogen technologies
Correspondence and General A-I DEWAR/Box D I
"Sur la solidification de l'hydrogène"
Bibcode
1994RvMP...66..671M
doi
10.1103/RevModPhys.66.671
Bibcode
2005Natur.435.1206G
doi
10.1038/nature03699
PMID
15988519
S2CID

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