{"id":125673,"date":"2021-07-30T15:22:30","date_gmt":"2021-07-30T22:22:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/07\/scientists-transform-water-into-shiny-golden-metal"},"modified":"2021-07-30T15:22:30","modified_gmt":"2021-07-30T22:22:30","slug":"scientists-transform-water-into-shiny-golden-metal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/07\/scientists-transform-water-into-shiny-golden-metal","title":{"rendered":"Scientists transform water into shiny, golden metal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-transform-water-into-shiny-golden-metal.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In a mind-mending experiment, scientists transformed purified water into metal for a few fleeting seconds, thus allowing the liquid to conduct electricity.<\/p>\n<p>Unfiltered water can already conduct electricity \u2014 meaning negatively charged electrons can easily flow between its molecules \u2014 because unfiltered water contains salts, according to a statement about the new study. However, purified water contains only water molecules, whose outermost electrons remain bound to their designated atoms, and thus, they can\u2019t flow freely through the water.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a mind-mending experiment, scientists transformed purified water into metal for a few fleeting seconds, thus allowing the liquid to conduct electricity. Unfiltered water can already conduct electricity \u2014 meaning negatively charged electrons can easily flow between its molecules \u2014 because unfiltered water contains salts, according to a statement about the new study. However, purified [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":599,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-125673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125673","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\/599"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125673"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125673\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}