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Re:Engineers develop a 96% efficient process to make formate... by kulahan on Tuesday October 31, 2023 @06:14PM (#38092160)
Really hard to keep a molecule that small in one place for long! I've definitely heard that it really just flies out of steel containers at shockingly high rates
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Re:Engineers develop a 96% efficient process to make formate... by black6 on Tuesday October 31, 2023 @09:41PM (#38093658)
It doesn't leak; it has to be vented. Hydrogen cannot be a liquid, no matter the pressure, at ambient temperatures, and there will always be heat leak. So your liquid hydrogen is always boiling, and with a good vacuum jacked dewar you'll lose 1-1.5% of the vessel's volume a day.
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