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

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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 ...

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It has been asserted on good authority that each of them contain, in various proportions, at least twelve different hydrocarbons whose boiling points range from 32 Fah. to 318, eight of them ...

This article was originally published with the title “Melting Point and Transformation of Sulphur” in Scientific American Magazine Vol. 9 No. 42 (July 1854), p. 334 doi:10.1038 ...