{"id":147855,"date":"2022-10-09T17:25:11","date_gmt":"2022-10-09T22:25:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/after-200-years-a-key-physical-chemistry-mystery-may-have-been-solved"},"modified":"2022-10-09T17:25:11","modified_gmt":"2022-10-09T22:25:11","slug":"after-200-years-a-key-physical-chemistry-mystery-may-have-been-solved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/after-200-years-a-key-physical-chemistry-mystery-may-have-been-solved","title":{"rendered":"After 200 Years, a Key Physical Chemistry Mystery May Have Been Solved"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/after-200-years-a-key-physical-chemistry-mystery-may-have-been-solved2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The question of how precisely protons move through water in an electric field has fascinated scientists for centuries. Now, more than 200 years after the last major insight into the phenomenon, scientists have some clarity.<\/p>\n<p>In 1,806, Theodor Grotthuss put forward a hypothesis, which came to be known as the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Grotthuss_mechanism\">Grotthuss mechanism<\/a> for \u2018proton jumping\u2019, about how a charge might flow through a solution of water.<\/p>\n<p>While Grotthuss\u2019s hypothesis was very forward-thinking for its time \u2013 coming before <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Proton\">protons<\/a>, or even the actual structure of water, were even known about \u2013 modern-day researchers have long known that it didn\u2019t provide a complete understanding of what happened at a molecular level.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The question of how precisely protons move through water in an electric field has fascinated scientists for centuries. Now, more than 200 years after the last major insight into the phenomenon, scientists have some clarity. In 1,806, Theodor Grotthuss put forward a hypothesis, which came to be known as the Grotthuss mechanism for \u2018proton jumping\u2019, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-147855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147855","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=147855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147855\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}