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Would the pressures in a Jovian not be enough to form metallic hydrogen?



To get solid metallic hydrogen, you'd need both high pressure and low temperatures; in the celestial bodies that can provide the former, the latter seems unlikely.


Jupiter is indeed believed to have a liquid metallic hydrogen core, which is the source of its enormous magnetic field:

https://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2011/0...


By Jove?!


Your attempt at humour has been rightly sanctioned, but you weren't all that far from the mark. Jove is another name for the roman god Jupiter, and as such a Jovian planet is one that resembles Jupiter - ie. large gas giants, where metallic hydrogen is certainly thought to exist in nature.

Not by Jove - inside Jove.




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