Water transformed into shiny, golden metal

Amazing stuff! The miracle of water!

Humans still do not even understand water let alone climate! However, powerful, yet medieval forces in our society incessantly demand that Global Warming is real and not a hoax and that Climate Change is an existential threat and not a religion!

"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.

The water stayed in a metallic state for a only few seconds, but the experiment did not require the high pressures that are normally needed to turn non-metallic materials into electrically conductive metals. ..."

"... We found that the explosive behaviour of the water–alkali metal reaction can be suppressed by adsorbing water vapour at a low pressure of about 10−4 millibar onto liquid sodium–potassium alloy drops ejected into a vacuum chamber. This set-up leads to the formation of a transient gold-coloured layer of a metallic water solution covering the metal alloy drops. ..."

Water transformed into shiny, golden metal Electrons from a droplet of sodium and potassium turn water into a metallic material that conducts electricity.

Spectroscopic evidence for a gold-coloured metallic water solution (no public access)