Jupiter would have certainly had countless rocky, icy, and any other category of asteroid fall into it over the last several billions of years, so itās not all hydrogen.
And Iām not sure if solid is the right word. Itās denser than solids weāre used to, but itās not necessarily making any bonds between nearby atoms, so they might flow to some degree.
Though even if is solid at some point, it wonāt necessarily be a sudden change from gas to solid or even gas to liquid to solid. The pressure is so high it might be more of a gradient than a surface like weāre used to here.
Hereās what I was taking about. The idea is under the right temps and pressures youād get a lattice of single hydrogen atoms instead of hydrogen atom pairs. It could potentially be meta stable after being produced, but thatās still to be determined.
Iāve heard a theory that thereās solid metallic hydrogen at the core from the absolutely immense pressure, but it hasnāt been confirmed.
Jupiter would have certainly had countless rocky, icy, and any other category of asteroid fall into it over the last several billions of years, so itās not all hydrogen.
And Iām not sure if solid is the right word. Itās denser than solids weāre used to, but itās not necessarily making any bonds between nearby atoms, so they might flow to some degree.
Though even if is solid at some point, it wonāt necessarily be a sudden change from gas to solid or even gas to liquid to solid. The pressure is so high it might be more of a gradient than a surface like weāre used to here.
Hereās what I was taking about. The idea is under the right temps and pressures youād get a lattice of single hydrogen atoms instead of hydrogen atom pairs. It could potentially be meta stable after being produced, but thatās still to be determined.
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