{"id":25469,"date":"2016-05-07T12:33:14","date_gmt":"2016-05-07T19:33:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/05\/new-study-looks-into-the-everyday-miracle-that-is-water"},"modified":"2017-06-04T20:00:32","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T03:00:32","slug":"new-study-looks-into-the-everyday-miracle-that-is-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/05\/new-study-looks-into-the-everyday-miracle-that-is-water","title":{"rendered":"New study looks into the everyday miracle that is water"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-study-looks-into-the-everyday-miracle-that-is-water.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Whatever the truth about claims that cloud-seeding was responsible for the floods in March, one thing is certain \u2013 during the downpours, thousands of people in the UAE were exposed to a bizarre quantum substance at the focus of \u00adintense scientific research.<\/p>\n<p>Colourless and odourless, its behaviour is unlike that of any other known compound. While most shrink when they freeze, this stuff expands. It\u2019s very hard to be heated up but once turned into liquid, it\u2019s extremely resistant to pressure.<\/p>\n<p>Exposure to it in any form can be fatal. Its liquid form is responsible for dozens of deaths each year in the UAE.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thenational.ae\/uae\/science\/new-study-looks-into-the-everyday-miracle-that-is-water\">http:\/\/www.thenational.ae\/uae\/science\/new-study-looks-into-t...t-is-water<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whatever the truth about claims that cloud-seeding was responsible for the floods in March, one thing is certain \u2013 during the downpours, thousands of people in the UAE were exposed to a bizarre quantum substance at the focus of \u00adintense scientific research. Colourless and odourless, its behaviour is unlike that of any other known compound. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25469","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\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25469"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25469\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67554,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25469\/revisions\/67554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}