{"id":219460,"date":"2025-08-05T12:16:51","date_gmt":"2025-08-05T17:16:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/scientists-create-gold-hydride-by-combining-gold-and-hydrogen-under-extreme-conditions"},"modified":"2025-08-05T12:16:51","modified_gmt":"2025-08-05T17:16:51","slug":"scientists-create-gold-hydride-by-combining-gold-and-hydrogen-under-extreme-conditions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/scientists-create-gold-hydride-by-combining-gold-and-hydrogen-under-extreme-conditions","title":{"rendered":"Scientists create gold hydride by combining gold and hydrogen under extreme conditions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-create-gold-hydride-by-combining-gold-and-hydrogen-under-extreme-conditions2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Serendipitously and for the first time, an international research team led by scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy\u2019s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory formed solid binary gold hydride, a compound made exclusively of gold and hydrogen atoms.<\/p>\n<p>The researchers were studying how long it takes hydrocarbons, compounds made of carbon and hydrogen, to form diamonds under extremely high pressure and heat.<\/p>\n<p>In their experiments at the European XFEL (X-ray Free-Electron Laser) in Germany, the team studied the effect of those extreme conditions in hydrocarbon samples with an embedded gold foil, which was meant to absorb the X-rays and heat the weakly absorbing hydrocarbons. To their surprise, they not only saw the formation of diamonds, but also discovered the formation of gold <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/hydride\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">hydride<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Serendipitously and for the first time, an international research team led by scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy\u2019s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory formed solid binary gold hydride, a compound made exclusively of gold and hydrogen atoms. The researchers were studying how long it takes hydrocarbons, compounds made of carbon and hydrogen, to form diamonds [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-219460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219460","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=219460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219460\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}