dark hydrogen
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.94 in modern English
25
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
4
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A state of hydrogen that is poorly electrically conductive (much less conductive than metallic hydrogen).
Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "One particular species of these candidates seems to be not dark at all: so-called dark hydrogen masses located in the optical Galactic disk."
- "The over-unity energy production could be due to a gradual transformation of hydrogen to dark hydrogen in the same state as in water."
- "However, the rates of dark hydrogen production were relatively low."
Etymology
From being a state of matter which neither transmits nor reflects visible light, but can transmit infrared.