With fast heating, sheets of gold can shoot past the theoretical maximum temperature a solid can have before it melts – ...

It’s not easy to surprise physicists with a phase change. Yet when Tom White first reviewed the data from a new experiment that used lasers to heat gold, he had to pause and double-check his results.

Heating that lasted only trillionths of a second raised a gold sample’s temperature to 19,000 K without melting it, a study ...

Gold remains solid at extreme temperatures, challenging thermodynamic laws and offering new insights for material design.

Researchers have been able to heat up a sample of solid gold to over 14 times its melting temperature for a fraction of a second, bypassing a theoretical limit known as the entropy catastrophe. The ...

Tungsten has the highest melting point known, 3,422 °C, and is an extremely dense, hard, and tough metal. Its properties make it an indispensible industrial metal, and it’s next up in our ...

Tungsten is a very hard metal with the highest melting point of any metal at 6,192 degrees Fahrenheit. An estimated 60% of the tungsten consumed in the U.S. is used to make tungsten carbide, ...