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Water transformed into shiny, golden metal

Electrons from a droplet of sodium and potassium turn water into a metallic material that conducts electricity.
  1. Davide Castelvecchi
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If you can’t turn water into gold like a good alchemist would, the next best thing might be to transform water itself into a shiny, metallic material. Researchers have achieved that feat by forming a thin layer of water around electron-sharing alkali metals.

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Nature 596, 18 (2021)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-02065-w

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