<story><title>Never-before-seen “black nitrogen” plugs puzzle in periodic table</title><url>https://newatlas.com/materials/black-nitrogen-allotrope-periodic-table/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>h2odragon</author><text>&amp;gt; the team exposed nitrogen to extreme heat and pressure. It was pressed together between two diamonds to 1.4 million atmospheres of pressure, and over 4,000 °C (7,232 °F).&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; The temperature at the inner core&amp;#x27;s surface is estimated to be approximately 5700 K (5430 °C or 9806 °F) ... The pressure in the Earth&amp;#x27;s inner core is slightly higher than it is at the boundary between the outer and inner cores: it ranges from about 330 to 360 gigapascals (3,300,000 to 3,600,000 atm)&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Earth%27s_inner_core&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Earth%27s_inner_core&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;There&amp;#x27;s probably even weirder states of nitrogen and other elements not that far away from us. Whole chemistries and semiconductor-ish effects we&amp;#x27;re guessing at. Fun!</text></comment>
<story><title>Never-before-seen “black nitrogen” plugs puzzle in periodic table</title><url>https://newatlas.com/materials/black-nitrogen-allotrope-periodic-table/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>colanderman</author><text>Dumb question, how does one convince nitrogen, a gas, to sit still between the heads of those two diamonds to be compressed?</text></comment>