{"id":6438,"date":"2010-09-04T03:00:40","date_gmt":"2010-09-04T08:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=6438"},"modified":"2010-09-04T03:00:40","modified_gmt":"2010-09-04T08:00:40","slug":"turns-out-theres-a-third-option","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/6438","title":{"rendered":"Turns Out There&#039;s a Third Option"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/physicsbuzz.physicscentral.com\/2010\/09\/taking-temperature-of-dinosaur.html\">Taking The Temperature Of A Dinosaur<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A team of researchers led by Robert Eagle, a biologist at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, California, found that rare, heavy isotopes of carbon-13 and oxygen-18 clump together differently depending on temperature.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s basic thermodynamics: At warmer temperatures, you get a more random distribution of these isotopes with less clumping,&#8221; Eagle said. &#8220;As temperature decreases things slow down and you begin to see more bonding.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>When this bonding takes place within an organism, such as in the formation of the mineral apatite to form tooth enamel, the pattern of bonds preserves a record of the animal&#8217;s body temperature, within a few degrees.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taking The Temperature Of A Dinosaur A team of researchers led by Robert Eagle, a biologist at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, California, found that rare, heavy isotopes of carbon-13 and oxygen-18 clump together differently depending on temperature. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/6438\">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":[35,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other-science","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6438","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=6438"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6438\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}