{"id":153123,"date":"2022-12-18T15:24:22","date_gmt":"2022-12-18T21:24:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/the-water-you-drink-is-4-5-billion-years-old-scientists-reveal"},"modified":"2022-12-18T15:24:22","modified_gmt":"2022-12-18T21:24:22","slug":"the-water-you-drink-is-4-5-billion-years-old-scientists-reveal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/the-water-you-drink-is-4-5-billion-years-old-scientists-reveal","title":{"rendered":"The water you drink is 4.5 billion years old, scientists reveal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-water-you-drink-is-4-5-billion-years-old-scientists-reveal2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It all began with a molecular cloud.<\/p>\n<p>A study in GeoScienceWorld.<\/p>\n<p>It all began with a cloud. That cloud was mostly hydrogen, water\u2019s main component, with a touch of helium, oxygen, and carbon.<\/p>\n<p>The oxygen in the cloud then came into contact with a dust grain. It froze and adhered to the surface.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Petmal\/iStock.<\/p>\n<p>Water originated on Earth through a four-step process.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/the-water-you-drink-is-4-5-billion-years-old-scientists-reveal\">Continue reading \u201cThe water you drink is 4.5 billion years old, scientists reveal\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It all began with a molecular cloud. A study in GeoScienceWorld. It all began with a cloud. That cloud was mostly hydrogen, water\u2019s main component, with a touch of helium, oxygen, and carbon. The oxygen in the cloud then came into contact with a dust grain. It froze and adhered to the surface. Petmal\/iStock. Water [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-153123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153123","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\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153123\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}