{"id":12055,"date":"2012-07-13T03:00:19","date_gmt":"2012-07-13T08:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=12055"},"modified":"2012-07-13T03:00:19","modified_gmt":"2012-07-13T08:00:19","slug":"strange-brew","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/12055","title":{"rendered":"Strange Brew"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.upi.com\/Science_News\/2012\/07\/11\/Super-cold-metals-show-strange-behavior\/UPI-90131342038865\/#ixzz20M38ccBA\">Super-cold metals show &#8216;strange&#8217; behavior<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Georgia Tech researchers, writing in the journal Science, report surprising behavior exhibited by nanometer-scale clusters of the metal niobium when they are cooled to below minus 424 degrees Fahrenheit.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I would not be surprised if the &#8220;nanometer-scale clusters&#8221; aspect of the investigation has some significant impact on the behavior.  A surface represents a loss of symmetry present in a bulk material; surface effects are of interest to many physicists.  A nanometer-scale cluster is going to have a fair amount of surface relative to its volume.  So it&#8217;s probably not just that it&#8217;s cold.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Super-cold metals show &#8216;strange&#8217; behavior Georgia Tech researchers, writing in the journal Science, report surprising behavior exhibited by nanometer-scale clusters of the metal niobium when they are cooled to below minus 424 degrees Fahrenheit. I would not be surprised if &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/12055\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12055","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12055"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12055\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}