what does solid noble gas feel like?

You put on some thin gloves that insulate from absolute zero temperatures but allow you to feel texture, you then dip your hand into a bowl full of absolute zero neon. What would it feel like?

It would feel like a solid.

>>1
I would have to concurr with my Negroid friend in >>2.

um, if it's a solid, your hand will rest on the surface, not penetrate the material.

>>1
IT PROBABLY WOULDNT FEEL LIKE ANYTHING SINCE IT WOULD INSTANTLY FREEZE YOUR CELLS BECAUSE ITS COLD AS SHIT

Ya but you have magic gloves.

>>6
With magic gloves, by definition you can have it feel like anything.

Noble gases aren't solid at absolute zero. The fact that the atoms don't move does not make it a solid. lrn2phasetransitions.
Helium does the superfluidity thing, too, though the other noble gases probably won't.

There's nothing more noble than my gas.

>>8
Interesting.  Then a noble gas at absolute zero is just a pile of atoms (therefore, not a solid)?  Or will a Bose-Einstein-Condensate like condition arise?

In the former, if there's no molecular movement, then the "pile of atoms" must definably have the structure of a FLUID.  Gravity will act on them to bring them down and force them to fill whatever container they're in.  Of course, the sheer act of moving in a field of absolute zero would itself produce molecular motion, right?  That would nullify the absoluteness of it, right?

as your glove contacts the superfluid, you are overwhelmed by the perfect smoothness of the impossibly cool gas. Amazed, you revel in its satiny feel, gleefully letting it "flow" through your fingertips, if flow is the right word. It is only until the searing pain hits your arms do you realize the gravity of your mistake, and by then, you're already a cube. the fluid climbs the walls of its container, as well as the outer lining of your gloves. defying gravity, it flows around any surface in contact, with unbelievable surface tension... that is, until it reaches your warm fleshy skin. The slightest of warmth is enough to surpass its heat of vaporization, and you are engulfed in an icy cloud of gas, a fraction of a degree above zero. So cold... So very cold... Where has my warmth gone? So cold...

BAD END

>>11
If the fluid-of-atoms climbed the container, then it did so while you prepared your "magic gloves".  FAIL.  The AZNG (absolute zero noble gas) would be gone by then, streaming over all surfaces until AAZ (above absolute zero) was achieved.

You could have surrounded the fluid with a sealed box into which your magic gloves protruded, forming a whole seal.  DOUBLE FAIL.

The only BAD END here is yours.

>>10
Most of the noble gases will solidify at absolute zero (at 1 atmosphere).  Helium is the exception, requiring more than 1 atmosphere to solidify.  I personally think that a solid chunk of a noble gas will be a crystal (just like salt, bismuth, and sulfur).

BECs are a special state.  I think helium4 can enter this state, but helium3 cannot.

>>12
You could be in a somewhat small enclosed room, therefore leaving a sufficient film of the superfluid to touch and climb up your arm, pedant.

>>14
Google "hermetic seal" and get back to us.

>>15
Google 5a22e6c339c96c9c0513a46e44c39683 and get back to us.

Okay, all the results I got were for homo porn. I enjoyed a nice masterbation session. Thank you Anon.

>>15 unrelated reply is unrelated.

It would feel like your magic gloves you're wearing.

Helium will not freeze without an extremely low temperature. Therefore in addition to needing protection against extreme cold, you would also need a pressure suit in order to be able to touch solid Helium. Another problem with touching solid Helium is that even the slightest input of energy would put it back into the liquid phase, so the suit would have to be an excellent insulator. Finally, it would be difficult to determine when the Helium actually froze because liquid Helium and solid Helium look almost identical.

Now, onto what it would feel like if you actually could touch it. It would be an extremely slippery solid due to the repulsion from the many electron pairs. It would also be "squishy" as solid Helium is compressible.

>>20
Helium will not freeze, period.

>>21

Helium will solidify at temperatures below 1 Kelvin and a pressure above 25 atm.

>>22
You can't extrapolate those graphs that far back, because of superfluidity.

>>23

Sure you can.  Try it sometime.

if it were possible, i would just imagine it being like a piece of ice. BUT at absolute zero its no longer a solid its basically a pile of atoms that don't move they would kind of act like a powder kind of in a mound shape or would possibly flow a little like a liquid. In either case, the second you touch it, it would liquify; as the atoms move and rub up against eachother from your input of energy in the form of motion, the atoms would be above absolute zero and either solidify slightly or be a liquid. No matter what you do, even if you could touch it, it would be like putting your hand into a vat of FUCKING COLD water that would kill you instantly, as you cannot insulate yourself against something thats absolute zero. Besides the fact that its not possible to reach absolute zero, as your cooling device would also be absolute zero, and fall apart

most are super fluids and so are frictionless resulting in no texture at all

We must develop a use for this, like some kind of intergalactic slip n' slide.

Helium-3 undergoes a cooling process that incorporates various stages past the Bose-Einstein Condensate. It becomes a superfluid at approx ~500mK and supposedly (according to new data) a supersolid at around ~200mK at high pressures.

so like a nutsack then

yes my nutbag is also a supersolid, since although solid it contains superfluid (my fervent seed)

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