seriously disabled Posted December 15, 2009 Share Posted December 15, 2009 Solid metallic hydrogen consists of a crystal lattice of atomic nuclei (namely, protons) separated only by a dense electron soup which flows between them. My question is: How are the atomic nuclei bound together? What keeps the nuclei in a crystal lattice structure? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
insane_alien Posted December 15, 2009 Share Posted December 15, 2009 electrostatic attraction to the electron sea. same as in all metals Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seriously disabled Posted December 15, 2009 Author Share Posted December 15, 2009 (edited) electrostatic attraction to the electron sea. same as in all metals But if the electrons are constantly flowing around the nuclei, then how can there be electrostatic attraction all the time? Merged post follows: Consecutive posts mergedAlso in solid metallic hydrogen, are the individual hydrogen atoms actually bound together to other hydrogen atoms or are they unbound? Edited December 15, 2009 by Uri Consecutive posts merged. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
granpa Posted December 16, 2009 Share Posted December 16, 2009 Solid metallic hydrogen consists of a crystal lattice of atomic nuclei (namely, protons) separated only by a dense electron soup which flows between them. My question is: How are the atomic nuclei bound together? What keeps the nuclei in a crystal lattice structure? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electron_degeneracy_pressure http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Degenerate_matter Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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