Word: hydrogenating
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...facility will house research projects which include creating substances with increased durability, developing thin inorganic films to collect solar energy, establishing techniques for refining petroleum and creating a metallic form of hydrogen...
WHITE'S MATURE WORK, in essays or in fiction, dealt very much with the real world; White championed environmental concerns long before they were socially acceptable. He refuted Anne Morrow Lindbergh's The Wave of the Future, which he thought disguised the real evil of fascism. He opposed hydrogen-bomb testing and McCarthyism; he was capable of finding, in the deceits of American advertising, "a family resemblance" to the propagandas of the German Nazis. And in Charlotte's Web White offered...
...important that I specifically create metallic hydrogen, but I do want to do something that requires technical inventivity...
...Silvera hopes his project will pay off. "At normal pressure and temperature, diamonds should return to carbon graphite, but it takes millions of years for it to change back." Silvera says, expressing the hope that metallic hydrogen will act the same way. "There's also an exciting prediction that it will become a liquid, which would give it some amazing properties," he adds...
Silvera began his work on metallic hydrogen while at the University of Amsterdam, where he taught for 11 years until 1982, when he joined the Harvard faculty. He has also worked at the Roskwell International Science Center in Thousand Oaks, Calif. He received his degree from the University of California at Berkeley