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by jacquesm 6089 days ago
From the same wikipedia article: "Theoretical work by Neil Ashcroft predicted that liquid metallic hydrogen at extremely high pressure should become superconducting at approximately room-temperature because of its extremely high speed of sound and expected strong coupling between the conduction electrons and the lattice vibrations.[33] This prediction is yet to be experimentally verified."

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