{"id":129426,"date":"2021-10-23T15:23:13","date_gmt":"2021-10-23T22:23:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/10\/scientists-say-theyve-created-a-strange-new-state-of-matter"},"modified":"2021-10-23T15:23:13","modified_gmt":"2021-10-23T22:23:13","slug":"scientists-say-theyve-created-a-strange-new-state-of-matter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/10\/scientists-say-theyve-created-a-strange-new-state-of-matter","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Say They\u2019ve Created a \u201cStrange\u201d New State of Matter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-say-theyve-created-a-strange-new-state-of-matter2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists at the University of Chicago say that they\u2019ve successfully created a \u201cstrange\u201d new state of matter in the laboratory called \u201csuperionic ice\u201d \u2014 and that the stuff might already exist inside planets in our solar system.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was a surprise \u2014 everyone thought this phase wouldn\u2019t appear until you are at much higher pressures than where we first find it,\u201d co-author and University of Chicago researcher Vitali Prakapenka said in a <a href=\"https:\/\/news.uchicago.edu\/story\/scientists-find-strange-black-superionic-ice-could-exist-inside-other-planets\" class=\"\">press blurb<\/a>. \u201cBut we were able to very accurately map the properties of this new ice, which constitutes a new phase of matter, thanks to several powerful tools.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Prakapenka\u2019s team used a particle acclerator to fire electons between two pieces of diamond, creating unfathomable pressures of 20 gigapascals in a sample of water and causing it to form an entirely new structure that reverted when they relieved the pressure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists at the University of Chicago say that they\u2019ve successfully created a \u201cstrange\u201d new state of matter in the laboratory called \u201csuperionic ice\u201d \u2014 and that the stuff might already exist inside planets in our solar system. \u201cIt was a surprise \u2014 everyone thought this phase wouldn\u2019t appear until you are at much higher pressures [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-129426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-particle-physics","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129426","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129426\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}