{"id":225560,"date":"2025-11-21T01:27:46","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T07:27:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/watching-golds-atomic-structure-change-at-10-million-times-earths-atmospheric-pressure"},"modified":"2025-11-21T01:27:46","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T07:27:46","slug":"watching-golds-atomic-structure-change-at-10-million-times-earths-atmospheric-pressure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/watching-golds-atomic-structure-change-at-10-million-times-earths-atmospheric-pressure","title":{"rendered":"Watching gold\u2019s atomic structure change at 10 million times Earth\u2019s atmospheric pressure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/watching-golds-atomic-structure-change-at-10-million-times-earths-atmospheric-pressure.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The inside of giant planets can reach pressures more than one million times the Earth\u2019s atmosphere. As a result of that intense pressure, materials can adopt unexpected structures and properties. Understanding matter in this regime requires experiments that push the limits of physics in the laboratory.<\/p>\n<p>In a recent paper published in <a href=\"https:\/\/journals.aps.org\/prl\/abstract\/10.1103\/yzzv-2w81\" target=\"_blank\"><i>Physical Review Letters<\/i><\/a>, researchers at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) and their collaborators conducted such experiments with gold, achieving the highest-pressure structural measurement ever made for the material. The results, which show gold switching structure at 10 million times the Earth\u2019s atmospheric pressure, are essential for planetary modeling and fusion science.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese experiments uncover the atomic rearrangements that occur at some of the most extreme pressures achievable in laboratory experiments,\u201d said LLNL scientist and author Amy Coleman.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The inside of giant planets can reach pressures more than one million times the Earth\u2019s atmosphere. As a result of that intense pressure, materials can adopt unexpected structures and properties. Understanding matter in this regime requires experiments that push the limits of physics in the laboratory. In a recent paper published in Physical Review Letters, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[219,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-225560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-physics","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225560","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=225560"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225560\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}