{"id":240511,"date":"2026-07-09T03:19:44","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T08:19:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/catching-hydrogen-in-the-act-tracking-the-absorption-process-over-time"},"modified":"2026-07-09T03:19:44","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T08:19:44","slug":"catching-hydrogen-in-the-act-tracking-the-absorption-process-over-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/catching-hydrogen-in-the-act-tracking-the-absorption-process-over-time","title":{"rendered":"Catching hydrogen in the act: Tracking the absorption process over time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/catching-hydrogen-in-the-act-tracking-the-absorption-process-over-time2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019re looking for hydrogen on the elemental chart, it won\u2019t take you long to find it. It is right there at the beginning, the lightest possible material. One electron, one proton, one neutron. Simple, minimalistic, the Marie Kondo of the elemental chart, but with enormous potential in terms of possible technological applications.<\/p>\n<p>A very prominent example interests every single one of us: Let\u2019s look into the daytime sky.<\/p>\n<p>If we think of the sun as a furnace, then hydrogen atoms are the coal ingots.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you\u2019re looking for hydrogen on the elemental chart, it won\u2019t take you long to find it. It is right there at the beginning, the lightest possible material. One electron, one proton, one neutron. Simple, minimalistic, the Marie Kondo of the elemental chart, but with enormous potential in terms of possible technological applications. A very [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1635,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-240511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-materials","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240511","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=240511"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240511\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}