{"id":211126,"date":"2025-04-11T01:19:56","date_gmt":"2025-04-11T06:19:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/this-bizarre-shape-shifting-liquid-bends-the-laws-of-thermodynamics"},"modified":"2025-04-11T01:19:56","modified_gmt":"2025-04-11T06:19:56","slug":"this-bizarre-shape-shifting-liquid-bends-the-laws-of-thermodynamics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/this-bizarre-shape-shifting-liquid-bends-the-laws-of-thermodynamics","title":{"rendered":"This Bizarre Shape-Shifting Liquid Bends The Laws of Thermodynamics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/this-bizarre-shape-shifting-liquid-bends-the-laws-of-thermodynamics2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A container of oil and water separated by a thin skin of magnetized particles has intrigued a team of chemical engineers by taking on an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=H02E7YTTFGQ&t=26s&ab_channel=UMassAmherst\">unexpected \u2018Grecian urn\u2019 shape<\/a> upon agitation.<\/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\/H02E7YTTFGQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI thought \u2018what is this thing?\u2019,\u201d graduate student Anthony Raykh from the University of Massachusetts Amherst <a href=\"https:\/\/www.umass.edu\/news\/article\/umass-amherst-team-finds-exception-laws-thermodynamics\">recalled<\/a>, after doing what all chemistry students love to do, mixing materials with intriguing properties just to see what would happen.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo, I walked up and down the halls of the Polymer Science and Engineering Department, knocking on my professors\u2019 doors, asking them if they knew what was going on.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A container of oil and water separated by a thin skin of magnetized particles has intrigued a team of chemical engineers by taking on an unexpected \u2018Grecian urn\u2019 shape upon agitation. \u201cI thought \u2018what is this thing?\u2019,\u201d graduate student Anthony Raykh from the University of Massachusetts Amherst recalled, after doing what all chemistry students love [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-211126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211126","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=211126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211126\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}