{"id":148659,"date":"2022-10-21T22:23:32","date_gmt":"2022-10-22T03:23:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/scientists-transformed-pure-water-into-a-metal-and-theres-footage"},"modified":"2022-10-21T22:23:32","modified_gmt":"2022-10-22T03:23:32","slug":"scientists-transformed-pure-water-into-a-metal-and-theres-footage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/scientists-transformed-pure-water-into-a-metal-and-theres-footage","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Transformed Pure Water Into a Metal, And There\u2019s Footage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0Nnowb_1isc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Pure water is an almost perfect insulator.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, water found in nature conducts electricity \u2013 but that\u2019s because of the impurities therein, which dissolve into free ions that allow an electric current to flow. Pure water only becomes \u201cmetallic\u201d \u2013 electronically conductive \u2013 at extremely high pressures, beyond our current abilities to produce in a lab.<\/p>\n<p>But, as researchers demonstrated for the first time back in 2021, it\u2019s not only high pressures that can induce this metallicity in pure water.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pure water is an almost perfect insulator. Yes, water found in nature conducts electricity \u2013 but that\u2019s because of the impurities therein, which dissolve into free ions that allow an electric current to flow. Pure water only becomes \u201cmetallic\u201d \u2013 electronically conductive \u2013 at extremely high pressures, beyond our current abilities to produce in a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-148659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148659","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148659"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148659\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}