{"id":85702,"date":"2018-12-11T07:02:24","date_gmt":"2018-12-11T15:02:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/12\/answering-the-mystery-of-what-atoms-do-when-liquids-and-gases-meet"},"modified":"2018-12-11T07:02:24","modified_gmt":"2018-12-11T15:02:24","slug":"answering-the-mystery-of-what-atoms-do-when-liquids-and-gases-meet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/12\/answering-the-mystery-of-what-atoms-do-when-liquids-and-gases-meet","title":{"rendered":"Answering the mystery of what atoms do when liquids and gases meet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/answering-the-mystery-of-what-atoms-do-when-liquids-and-gases-meet2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>How atoms arrange themselves at the smallest scale was thought to follow a \u2018drum-skin\u2019 rule, but mathematicians have now found a simpler solution.<\/p>\n<p>Atomic arrangements in different <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/materials\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">materials<\/a> can provide a lot of information about the properties of materials, and what the potential is for altering what they can be used for.<\/p>\n<p>However, where two materials touch \u2013 at their interface \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/complex+interactions\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">complex interactions<\/a> arise that make predicting the arrangement of atoms difficult.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2018-12-mystery-atoms-liquids-gases.html\">https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2018&#45;12-mystery-atoms-liquids-gases.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How atoms arrange themselves at the smallest scale was thought to follow a \u2018drum-skin\u2019 rule, but mathematicians have now found a simpler solution. Atomic arrangements in different materials can provide a lot of information about the properties of materials, and what the potential is for altering what they can be used for. However, where two [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":501,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2229,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mathematics","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85702","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\/501"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85702"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85702\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}