Figure - PMC

Skip to main content

An official website of the United States government

Here's how you know

Here's how you know

Official websites use .gov
A .gov website belongs to an official government organization in the United States.

Secure .gov websites use HTTPS
A lock ( ) or https:// means you've safely connected to the .gov website. Share sensitive information only on official, secure websites.

View full-text article in PMC

. 2010 Mar 13;368(1914):941–965. doi: 10.1098/rsta.2009.0282

Search in PMC
Search in PubMed
View in NLM Catalog
Add to search

© 2010 The Royal Society

This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

PMC Copyright notice

Figure 9. — The transition to the metallic state for high-temperature (T> 1000 K) fluid caesium, rubidium, mercury and hydrogen: the dependence of the electrical conductivity on the scaling parameter n^1/3a_H^*. The dotted line drawn at n^1/3a_H^* indicates the common metallization condition for these chemical elements. To the left of the metallization condition, we have the non-metallic form of the four elements (non-metallic fluids); to the right, we have the corresponding metallic state (the metallic fluids). Above the metallization threshold, we anticipate conduction based on the theory put forward by Ziman (1961).