{"id":190007,"date":"2024-05-24T21:24:37","date_gmt":"2024-05-25T02:24:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/05\/promethium-discovery-set-to-rewrite-chemistry-textbooks"},"modified":"2024-05-24T21:24:37","modified_gmt":"2024-05-25T02:24:37","slug":"promethium-discovery-set-to-rewrite-chemistry-textbooks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/05\/promethium-discovery-set-to-rewrite-chemistry-textbooks","title":{"rendered":"Promethium Discovery Set to Rewrite Chemistry Textbooks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_QKyecJOx2s?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Scientists have made a significant breakthrough in understanding the properties of promethium, a rare earth element with elusive characteristics despite its use in modern technology.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Researchers have uncovered the properties of a rare earth element that was first discovered 80 years ago at the very same laboratory. Their discoveries open a new pathway for the exploration of elements critical in modern technology, from medicine to space travel.<\/p>\n<p>Promethium was discovered in 1945 at Clinton Laboratories, now the Department of Energy\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/scitechdaily.com\/tag\/oak-ridge-national-laboratory\/\">Oak Ridge National Laboratory<\/a>, and continues to be produced at ORNL in minute quantities. Some of its properties have remained elusive despite the rare earth element\u2019s use in medical studies and long-lived nuclear batteries. It is named after the mythological Titan who delivered fire to humans and whose name symbolizes human striving.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists have made a significant breakthrough in understanding the properties of promethium, a rare earth element with elusive characteristics despite its use in modern technology. Researchers have uncovered the properties of a rare earth element that was first discovered 80 years ago at the very same laboratory. Their discoveries open a new pathway for the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,19,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-190007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-chemistry","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190007","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=190007"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190007\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}