{"id":419810,"date":"2017-12-20T08:23:37","date_gmt":"2017-12-20T12:23:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=02a1d88c70a61d11e54bdf8c0b664b1e"},"modified":"2017-12-20T08:23:37","modified_gmt":"2017-12-20T12:23:37","slug":"image-plastic-fir-tree-forest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=419810","title":{"rendered":"Image: Plastic fir-tree forest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This image shows how a metal alloy could look like as it solidifies \u2013 using a transparent organic mixture as a stand-in for metals. Likened to a &#8216;star rain&#8217;, the fir tree-like crystallisations that form during the casting of metal alloys are called dendrites. Dendrites can be crucial to the mix \u2013 the atomic structures can form a strong and flexible metal or cause a brittle and weak one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This image shows how a metal alloy could look like as it solidifies &ndash; using a transparent organic mixture as a stand-in for metals. Likened to a &#8216;star rain&#8217;, the fir tree-like crystallisations that form during the casting of metal alloys are called dendrites. Dendrites can be crucial to the mix &ndash; the atomic structures can form a strong and flexible metal or cause a brittle and weak one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-419810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419810","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=419810"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419810\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":419811,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419810\/revisions\/419811"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=419810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=419810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=419810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}