{"id":17780,"date":"2019-06-22T21:04:01","date_gmt":"2019-06-23T01:04:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/?p=17780"},"modified":"2019-06-22T21:04:03","modified_gmt":"2019-06-23T01:04:03","slug":"poly-acrylamide-polymer-crystals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/?p=17780","title":{"rendered":"Poly-acrylamide polymer crystals"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-twitter wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Poly-acrylamide polymer crystals are able to absorb up to 200 times their volume of water. 7 small spheres ~4 mm in diameter were immersed in water for 3 hours, after which they were ~23 mm across. The final gel sphere is more than 99.5% water <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/VOSUBSrvRv\">https:\/\/t.co\/VOSUBSrvRv<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/MPtzRRzF4Z\">pic.twitter.com\/MPtzRRzF4Z<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Rainmaker1973\/status\/1142329195567157249?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 22, 2019<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-physique"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17780"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17780\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17781,"href":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17780\/revisions\/17781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}