{"id":170948,"date":"2023-08-30T21:22:29","date_gmt":"2023-08-31T02:22:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/scientists-have-observed-a-never-before-seen-form-of-oxygen"},"modified":"2023-08-30T21:22:29","modified_gmt":"2023-08-31T02:22:29","slug":"scientists-have-observed-a-never-before-seen-form-of-oxygen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/scientists-have-observed-a-never-before-seen-form-of-oxygen","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Have Observed a Never-Before-Seen Form of Oxygen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-have-observed-a-never-before-seen-form-of-oxygen3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A newly observed isotope of oxygen is defying all our expectations for how it should behave.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s oxygen-28, with the highest number of neutrons ever seen in the nucleus of an oxygen atom. Yet, while scientists believe it should be stable, it decays rapidly \u2013 calling into question what we thought we knew about \u201cmagic\u201d numbers of particles in the nucleus of an atom.<\/p>\n<p>The nucleus of an atom contains subatomic particles called nucleons, consisting of protons and neutrons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A newly observed isotope of oxygen is defying all our expectations for how it should behave. It\u2019s oxygen-28, with the highest number of neutrons ever seen in the nucleus of an oxygen atom. Yet, while scientists believe it should be stable, it decays rapidly \u2013 calling into question what we thought we knew about \u201cmagic\u201d [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-170948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170948","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\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=170948"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170948\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}