{"id":25596,"date":"2016-05-11T13:03:12","date_gmt":"2016-05-11T20:03:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/05\/new-state-of-water-strange-6-sided-molecule-found"},"modified":"2017-06-04T10:23:35","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T17:23:35","slug":"new-state-of-water-strange-6-sided-molecule-found","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/05\/new-state-of-water-strange-6-sided-molecule-found","title":{"rendered":"New State of Water: Strange 6-Sided Molecule Found"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/JbEaly1dlto?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>A strange new behavior of water molecules has been observed inside crystals of beryl, a type of emerald, caused by bizarre quantum-mechanical effects that let the water molecules face six different directions at the same time.<\/p>\n<p>Under normal conditions, the two hydrogen atoms in each <a href=\"http:\/\/www.livescience.com\/32254-does-a-water-molecule-have-a-lifespan.html\">water molecule<\/a> are arranged around the oxygen atom in an open \u201cV\u201d shape, sometimes compared to a boomerang or Mickey Mouse ears.<\/p>\n<p>But in a new experiment, scientists have found that hydrogen atoms of some water molecules trapped in the crystal structure of the mineral beryl become \u201csmeared out\u201d into a six-sided ring. [T <a href=\"http:\/\/www.livescience.com\/33505-water-strange-physics.html\">he Surprisingly Strange Physics of Water<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.livescience.com\/54710-strange-six-sided-water-molecule-found.html\">http:\/\/www.livescience.com\/54710-strange-six-sided-water-molecule-found.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A strange new behavior of water molecules has been observed inside crystals of beryl, a type of emerald, caused by bizarre quantum-mechanical effects that let the water molecules face six different directions at the same time. Under normal conditions, the two hydrogen atoms in each water molecule are arranged around the oxygen atom in an [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-particle-physics","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25596","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=25596"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25596\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61834,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25596\/revisions\/61834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}