XClose

UCL News

Home
Menu

Magnesium oxide might be liquid in super-Earths

23 November 2012

"If you squeeze and heat hard and high enough, everything becomes metallic," says Professor Dario Alfè (UCL Earth Sciences). "The crucial point here is that magnesium oxide appears to become metallic at conditions not too far from those [at] the centre of terrestrial planets." Read: Chemistry World