Tag: negative compressibility

• In Soviet Russia, material compresses *you*

  Most solids compress when squeezed, though the effect isn’t very large for most technologically important materials (metals, ceramics, and so forth). A few rare materials exhibit negative compressibility: they expand in the direction the force is exerted, though again the effect is small. However, researchers figured out a way to produce extraordinarily large negative compressibility,…

  Matthew R. Francis

  January 22, 2013

  Ars Technica, Writing for Other Sites

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