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Superheated Gold Surpasses Melting Point Without Melting, Defying Physics

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Superheated Gold Surpasses Melting Point Without Melting, Defying Physics
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Researchers successfully superheated solid gold to over 14 times its melting point for a brief moment, bypassing the entropy catastrophe limit, which could lead to new insights into phase transitions and material production. Using ultrafast laser heating on nanoscale gold films, they achieved this extreme state without the usual structural breakdown, opening possibilities for advanced material manipulation.

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  1. Solid Gold Superheated To 14 Times Its Melting Point, Bypassing The "Entropy Catastrophe"  IFLScience
  2. Superheating gold beyond the predicted entropy catastrophe threshold  Nature
  3. Gold can be heated to 14 times its melting point without melting  New Scientist
  4. Superheated Gold Hits Temperatures Higher Than the Sun’s Surface—Without Melting  Scientific American
  5. Superheated gold withstands 'entropy catastrophe': New method challenges established physics  Phys.org

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