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Squeezing xenon to a metal, sulfur to a superconductor

APR 01, 1979

If you squeeze any substance hard enough to reduce the volume, it is destined to become metallic as the density of electrons is increased. It is also widely believed that the substance will probably become superconducting at sufficiently high pressure and low temperature.

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