{"id":118298,"date":"2021-01-10T23:23:26","date_gmt":"2021-01-11T07:23:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/01\/scientists-discover-a-new-type-of-chemical-bond-and-its-surprisingly-strong"},"modified":"2021-01-10T23:23:26","modified_gmt":"2021-01-11T07:23:26","slug":"scientists-discover-a-new-type-of-chemical-bond-and-its-surprisingly-strong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/01\/scientists-discover-a-new-type-of-chemical-bond-and-its-surprisingly-strong","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Discover a New Type of Chemical Bond, And It\u2019s Surprisingly Strong"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-discover-a-new-type-of-chemical-bond-and-its-surprisingly-strong2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists have recently discovered a totally new type of chemical bond \u2013 and it\u2019s way stronger than it has any right to be.<\/p>\n<p>The new type of bond shows that the divide between powerful covalent bonds, which bind molecules together, and weak hydrogen bonds, which form between molecules and can be broken by something as simple as stirring salt into a glass of water, isn\u2019t as clear as chemistry textbooks would suggest.<\/p>\n<p>Think back to that high-school <a href=\"https:\/\/www.livescience.com\/45986-what-is-chemistry.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">chemistry<\/a> class, and you\u2019ll remember that there are different types of bonds that link <a href=\"https:\/\/www.livescience.com\/37206-atom-definition.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">atoms<\/a> together into molecules and crystal structures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists have recently discovered a totally new type of chemical bond \u2013 and it\u2019s way stronger than it has any right to be. The new type of bond shows that the divide between powerful covalent bonds, which bind molecules together, and weak hydrogen bonds, which form between molecules and can be broken by something as [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-118298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118298","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118298\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}