{"id":167644,"date":"2023-07-16T10:30:58","date_gmt":"2023-07-16T15:30:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/challenging-conventional-wisdom-new-discovery-transforms-our-understanding-of-crystals"},"modified":"2023-07-16T10:30:58","modified_gmt":"2023-07-16T15:30:58","slug":"challenging-conventional-wisdom-new-discovery-transforms-our-understanding-of-crystals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/challenging-conventional-wisdom-new-discovery-transforms-our-understanding-of-crystals","title":{"rendered":"Challenging Conventional Wisdom: New Discovery Transforms Our Understanding of Crystals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/challenging-conventional-wisdom-new-discovery-transforms-our-understanding-of-crystals2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For many, the word \u201ccrystals\u201d conjures images of shimmering suncatchers that create a prism of rainbow colors or semi-transparent stones thought to possess healing abilities. But in the realm of science and engineering, crystals take on a more technical definition. They\u2019re perceived as materials whose components \u2013 be it atoms, molecules, or nanoparticles \u2013are arranged regularly in space. In other words, crystals are defined by the regular arrangement of their constituents. Familiar examples include diamonds, table salt, and sugar cubes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For many, the word \u201ccrystals\u201d conjures images of shimmering suncatchers that create a prism of rainbow colors or semi-transparent stones thought to possess healing abilities. But in the realm of science and engineering, crystals take on a more technical definition. They\u2019re perceived as materials whose components \u2013 be it atoms, molecules, or nanoparticles \u2013are arranged [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,4,48,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-167644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-engineering","category-nanotechnology","category-particle-physics","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167644","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=167644"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167644\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}