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Plastic flow of solid H2 at low temperature

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Alekseeva and Krupskii1 have reported the observation of the plastic flow of solid hydrogen under the influence of gravity. We describe here an attempt to repeat this experiment. No measurable flow was observed.

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  1. Department of Physics, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island

    Quan Xiong & Humphrey J. Maris

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Xiong, Q., Maris, H.J. Plastic flow of solid H2 at low temperature. J Low Temp Phys 81, 167–170 (1990). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00682678

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