{"id":7638,"date":"2011-01-13T03:00:44","date_gmt":"2011-01-13T08:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=7638"},"modified":"2011-01-13T03:00:44","modified_gmt":"2011-01-13T08:00:44","slug":"the-dandiness-of-candy-was-not-measured","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/7638","title":{"rendered":"The Dandiness of Candy Was Not Measured"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/io9.com\/5731129\/drunken-scientists-pour-alcohol-on-superconductors-and-make-an-incredible-discovery\">Drunk scientists pour wine on superconductors and make an incredible discovery<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>When they tested the resulting materials for superconductivity, they found that the ones soaked in commercial booze came out ahead. About 15 percent of the material became a superconductor for the water mixed with ethanol, and less for the pure water. By comparison, Shochu jacked up conductivity by 23 percent and red wine managed to supercharge over 62 percent of the material. The scientists were pleased, if bemused with their results.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>One wonders, did they have a hangover (or regret their conductivity becoming super) the next morning?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Drunk scientists pour wine on superconductors and make an incredible discovery When they tested the resulting materials for superconductivity, they found that the ones soaked in commercial booze came out ahead. About 15 percent of the material became a superconductor &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/7638\">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-7638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7638","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=7638"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7638\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}