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A team of researchers, including from Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden, has made a scientific breakthrough making the surface of gold melt at room temperature under a transmission electron microscope.While studying the atoms of gold, Ludvig de Knoop from Chalmers’ Department of Physics, placed a small piece of the metal in an electron microscope. Observing it at the highest level of magnification and increasing the electric field step-by-step to extremely high levels, he was fascinated to see the surface layers of gold actually melting.“I was really stunned by the discovery. This is an extraordinary phenomenon, and it gives us new, foundational knowledge of gold,” he said.After conducting more experiments and analysis, the research team concluded that the high electric fields were the ones responsible for changing the gold atoms’ behavior and melting the metal.Also on rt.comWorld’s five most expensive precious metals“The discovery of how gold atoms can lose their structure …