Oxygen molecule survives to enormously high pressures
Monday, January 30, 2012 - 11:31
in Physics & Chemistry
Using computer simulations, a Ruhr-University Bochum (Germany) researcher has shown that the oxygen molecule (O2) is stable up to pressures of 1.9 terapascal, which is about nineteen million times higher than atmosphere pressure. Above that, it polymerizes, i.e. builds larger molecules or structures.