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

Researchers taking the first-ever direct measurement of atom temperature in extremely hot materials inadvertently disproved a ...

This is the so-called entropy catastrophe. This critical temperature, where a superheated solid and a liquid have the same entropy, is around three times the melting temperature. Gold has a melting ...

Gold usually melts at 1,300 kelvins—a temperature hotter than fresh lava from a volcano. The feat was completely unexpected ...

Physicists superheated gold to 14 times its melting point, disproving a long-standing prediction about the temperature limits ...