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

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

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 ...

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