{"id":154084,"date":"2023-01-01T02:24:50","date_gmt":"2023-01-01T08:24:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/quasicrystal-formed-during-accidental-electrical-discharge"},"modified":"2023-01-01T02:24:50","modified_gmt":"2023-01-01T08:24:50","slug":"quasicrystal-formed-during-accidental-electrical-discharge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/quasicrystal-formed-during-accidental-electrical-discharge","title":{"rendered":"Quasicrystal formed during accidental electrical discharge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/quasicrystal-formed-during-accidental-electrical-discharge2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A team of researchers from Universit\u00e0 di Firenze, the University of South Florida, California Institute of Technology and Princeton University has found an incidence of a quasicrystal formed during an accidental electrical discharge.<\/p>\n<p>In their paper published in <i>Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences<\/i>, the group describes their study of a quasicrystal found in a <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/sand+dune\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">sand dune<\/a> in Nebraska.<\/p>\n<p>Quasicrystals, as their name suggests, are crystal-like substances. They possess characteristics not found in ordinary crystals, such as a non-repeating arrangement of atoms. To date, quasicrystals have been found embedded in meteorites and in the debris from nuclear blasts. In this new effort, the researchers found one embedded in a sand dune in Sand Hills, Nebraska.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A team of researchers from Universit\u00e0 di Firenze, the University of South Florida, California Institute of Technology and Princeton University has found an incidence of a quasicrystal formed during an accidental electrical discharge. In their paper published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the group describes their study of a quasicrystal found in [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-154084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154084","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\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=154084"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154084\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}