{"id":227816,"date":"2025-12-25T17:03:21","date_gmt":"2025-12-25T23:03:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/scientists-discover-that-gold-is-a-reactive-metal-by-accidentally-creating-a-new-material-in-the-lab"},"modified":"2025-12-25T17:03:21","modified_gmt":"2025-12-25T23:03:21","slug":"scientists-discover-that-gold-is-a-reactive-metal-by-accidentally-creating-a-new-material-in-the-lab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/scientists-discover-that-gold-is-a-reactive-metal-by-accidentally-creating-a-new-material-in-the-lab","title":{"rendered":"Scientists discover that gold is a \u2018reactive metal\u2019 by accidentally creating a new material in the lab"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-discover-that-gold-is-a-reactive-metal-by-accidentally-creating-a-new-material-in-the-lab.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In a high-pressure lab experiment, scientists accidentally created a new compound called gold hydride. This particular hydride formed when thin gold foil met dense hydrogen at pressures hundreds of thousands of times Earth\u2019s atmosphere and blazing temperatures.<\/p>\n<p>The discovery challenges gold\u2019s reputation as a nearly inert metal and shows how extreme conditions can push familiar materials into unfamiliar forms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a high-pressure lab experiment, scientists accidentally created a new compound called gold hydride. This particular hydride formed when thin gold foil met dense hydrogen at pressures hundreds of thousands of times Earth\u2019s atmosphere and blazing temperatures. The discovery challenges gold\u2019s reputation as a nearly inert metal and shows how extreme conditions can push familiar [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1635],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-227816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-materials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227816","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\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=227816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227816\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}