{"id":31911,"date":"2016-11-13T21:47:46","date_gmt":"2016-11-14T05:47:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/11\/physicists-just-discovered-a-second-state-of-liquid-water"},"modified":"2017-06-04T14:03:12","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T21:03:12","slug":"physicists-just-discovered-a-second-state-of-liquid-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/11\/physicists-just-discovered-a-second-state-of-liquid-water","title":{"rendered":"Physicists Just Discovered a Second State of Liquid Water"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/physicists-just-discovered-a-second-state-of-liquid-water.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s one of the most fundamental compounds on Earth, and it makes up roughly <a href=\"http:\/\/water.usgs.gov\/edu\/propertyyou.html\">60 percent of the human body,<\/a> and yet water is turning out to be stranger than we could have ever imagined.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers have been investigating the physical properties of water, and found that when it\u2019s heated to between 40 and 60 degrees Celsius, it hits a \u2018crossover temperature\u2019, and appears to start switching between two different states of liquid.<\/p>\n<p>As a chemical compound, water is so vital to life on Earth, we\u2019ve been underestimating how legitimately weird it is.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/physicists-just-discovered-a-second-state-of-liquid-water\">http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/physicists-just-discovered-a-sec...quid-water<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s one of the most fundamental compounds on Earth, and it makes up roughly 60 percent of the human body, and yet water is turning out to be stranger than we could have ever imagined. Researchers have been investigating the physical properties of water, and found that when it\u2019s heated to between 40 and 60 [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":413,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31911","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\/413"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31911"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31911\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65770,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31911\/revisions\/65770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}