{"id":170625,"date":"2023-08-26T07:22:23","date_gmt":"2023-08-26T12:22:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/physicists-synthesize-single-crystalline-iron-in-the-form-likely-found-in-earths-core"},"modified":"2023-08-26T07:22:23","modified_gmt":"2023-08-26T12:22:23","slug":"physicists-synthesize-single-crystalline-iron-in-the-form-likely-found-in-earths-core","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/physicists-synthesize-single-crystalline-iron-in-the-form-likely-found-in-earths-core","title":{"rendered":"Physicists synthesize single-crystalline iron in the form likely found in Earth\u2019s core"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/physicists-synthesize-single-crystalline-iron-in-the-form-likely-found-in-earths-core.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A team of physicists and geologists at CEA DAM-DIF and Universit\u00b4e Paris-Saclay, working with a colleague from ESRF, BP220, F-38043 Grenoble Cedex and another from the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility, has succeeded in synthesizing a single-crystalline iron in a form that iron has in the Earth\u2019s core.<\/p>\n<p>In their <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/paper\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">paper<\/a> published in the journal <i>Physical Review Letters<\/i>, the group describes how they used an experimental approach to synthesize pure single-crystalline \u03b5-iron and possible uses for the material.<\/p>\n<p>In trying to understand Earth\u2019s internal composition, scientists have had to rely mostly on seismological data. Such studies have led scientists to believe that the core is solid and that it is surrounded by liquid. But questions have remained. For example, back in the 1980s, studies revealed that seismic waves travel faster through the Earth when traveling pole to pole versed equator to equator, and no one could explain why.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A team of physicists and geologists at CEA DAM-DIF and Universit\u00b4e Paris-Saclay, working with a colleague from ESRF, BP220, F-38043 Grenoble Cedex and another from the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility, has succeeded in synthesizing a single-crystalline iron in a form that iron has in the Earth\u2019s core. In their paper published in the journal Physical [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1635,219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-170625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-materials","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170625","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=170625"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170625\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}