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[Henning]

You mean like molecular hydrogen (H2)? Liquid hydrogen? Solid hydrogen? Molecular hydrogen which is stored in a tank, like those in a hydrogen powered car? Those tanks contain a resolvent (or whatever) that bounds to hydrogen, and the mass of the resolvant exceeds that of hydrogen a few times.

Otherwise you have to cool the hydrogen to a liquid, or have a very high pressure.

The easiest resolvent (or whatever, well not quite) for that is oxygen, which makes it H2O, water. But then it’s not molecular hydrogen anymore. But it stays liquid up to 100°C.

For methane and -40°C you get more hydrogen atoms per mol or per kg than with water, and it’s solid.

So cool the shielding to 100°C with water or -40°C with methane.

Or longer strands of hydrocarbonates. But that makes it more explosive again. Maybe some plastics? More hydrogen atoms per mol, but you can’t replace them when they get shot out of their molecular bindings. Water just changes to OH when it looses an hydrogen atom.

Thinking of it, a liquid is preferable to a solid, so you can replace the modified molecules (H2O -> OH + H). And a gaseous substance doesn’t comes near to a density of a liquid.