{"id":77818,"date":"2018-04-14T12:03:02","date_gmt":"2018-04-14T19:03:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/04\/scientists-just-achieved-the-worlds-most-precise-chemical-reaction"},"modified":"2018-04-14T12:03:02","modified_gmt":"2018-04-14T19:03:02","slug":"scientists-just-achieved-the-worlds-most-precise-chemical-reaction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/04\/scientists-just-achieved-the-worlds-most-precise-chemical-reaction","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Just Achieved The World\u2019s Most Precise Chemical Reaction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-just-achieved-the-worlds-most-precise-chemical-reaction.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists have just performed the world\u2019s most precisely controlled chemical reaction, sticking together just two atoms from elements that wouldn\u2019t normally form a molecule.<\/p>\n<p>The two elements \u2014 sodium and caesium \u2014 produced an interesting alloy-like molecule. On top of that, this method of creation could set the way of making just the kind of materials we might need in future technology.<\/p>\n<p>A team of Harvard University scientists used laser \u2018tweezers\u2019 to manipulate individual atoms of the two alkali metals into close proximity, and provided a photon to help them bond into a single molecule.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/dipole-molecule-created-using-laser-trapped-sodium-caesium-atoms\">https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/dipole-molecule-created-using-l...sium-atoms<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists have just performed the world\u2019s most precisely controlled chemical reaction, sticking together just two atoms from elements that wouldn\u2019t normally form a molecule. The two elements \u2014 sodium and caesium \u2014 produced an interesting alloy-like molecule. On top of that, this method of creation could set the way of making just the kind of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1635,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77818","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\/77818","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77818"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77818\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}