{"id":113197,"date":"2020-09-20T09:23:14","date_gmt":"2020-09-20T16:23:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/09\/a-strange-new-magnetoelectric-effect-has-been-discovered-in-a-symmetrical-crystal"},"modified":"2020-09-20T09:23:14","modified_gmt":"2020-09-20T16:23:14","slug":"a-strange-new-magnetoelectric-effect-has-been-discovered-in-a-symmetrical-crystal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/09\/a-strange-new-magnetoelectric-effect-has-been-discovered-in-a-symmetrical-crystal","title":{"rendered":"A Strange New Magnetoelectric Effect Has Been Discovered in a Symmetrical Crystal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-strange-new-magnetoelectric-effect-has-been-discovered-in-a-symmetrical-crystal2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Magnetism and electricity are linked together in many weird and wonderful ways throughout science, including the fascinating <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Magnetoelectric_effect\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">magnetoelectric effect<\/a> noticeable in some crystals \u2013 where the electrical properties of a crystal can be influenced by a magnetic field, and vice versa.<\/p>\n<p>Now things have gotten even weirder, because scientists have discovered a brand new magnetoelectric effect in a symmetrical crystal \u2013 and it shouldn\u2019t be possible.<\/p>\n<p>The effect was found in a specific type of crystal called a <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lanthanum_gallium_silicate\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">langasite<\/a>, which is made up of lanthanum, gallium, silicon and oxygen, plus <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Holmium\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">holmium<\/a> atoms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Magnetism and electricity are linked together in many weird and wonderful ways throughout science, including the fascinating magnetoelectric effect noticeable in some crystals \u2013 where the electrical properties of a crystal can be influenced by a magnetic field, and vice versa. Now things have gotten even weirder, because scientists have discovered a brand new magnetoelectric [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-113197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113197\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}