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Nth Metal is a hyper-conductive metal that negates gravity. It features heavily in DC comics, but how does it stack up in the real world Professor Penny Brothers gives Bryan Crump her scientific take on it.

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© RNZ Length 27 min 10 July 2023 Season 3 Episode 2 Sci-FiScienceSpace New Zealand Episodic

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© RNZ Length 27 min 10 July 2023 Season 3 Episode 2 Sci-FiScienceSpace New Zealand Episodic

Getting to the science behind the fiction

Getting to the science behind the fiction

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Nth Metal is a hyper-conductive metal that negates gravity. It features heavily in DC comics, but how does it stack up in the real world Professor Penny Brothers gives Bryan Crump her scientific take on it.

Professor Penny Brothers, Emeritus Investigator at the MacDiarmid Institute and Professor of Chemistry at the Australian National University gives us her scientific take on Nth Metal from DC Comics, a hyper-conductive metal that has the ability to negate gravity, allowing a person to carry objects 20-70 times heavier than normal and to fly.

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