{"id":232537,"date":"2026-03-04T01:37:37","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T07:37:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/the-quest-to-understand-where-atoms-end"},"modified":"2026-03-04T01:37:37","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T07:37:37","slug":"the-quest-to-understand-where-atoms-end","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/the-quest-to-understand-where-atoms-end","title":{"rendered":"The quest to understand where atoms end"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-quest-to-understand-where-atoms-end2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Atomic size measurements like van der Waals and covalent radii are central to chemistry, but are they grounded in reality?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Atomic size measurements like van der Waals and covalent radii are central to chemistry, but are they grounded in reality?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-232537","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\/232537","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=232537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232537\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}