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![ORNL Image](/sites/default/files/styles/list_page_thumbnail/public/2017-S00094_2.jpg?itok=ZGWBnMOv)
Researchers used neutrons to probe a running engine at ORNL’s Spallation Neutron Source
![Vanadium atoms (blue) have unusually large thermal vibrations that stabilize the metallic state of a vanadium dioxide crystal. Red depicts oxygen atoms.](/sites/default/files/styles/list_page_thumbnail/public/2020-06/82289_web.jpg?h=05d1a54d&itok=_5hHRzzR)
For more than 50 years, scientists have debated what turns particular oxide insulators, in which electrons barely move, into metals, in which electrons flow freely.