High Pressure Makes Sodium Transparent

The March 12th issue of the journal Nature features one of the most interesting articles to date, in which researchers from Stony Brook University (SBU) and Jilin University (JU) show that the element sodium (chemical symbol Na) can become transparent when subjected to high pressures. This be... [ read more >> ]

Sodium usually occurrs as a gray metal in nature, but can be made transparent by more than 2 million atmospheres of pressure

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Sodium usually occurrs as a gray metal in nature, but can be made transparent by more than 2 million atmospheres of pressure