{"id":3476,"date":"2013-08-29T08:37:58","date_gmt":"2013-08-29T13:37:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/?p=3476"},"modified":"2021-11-27T22:10:12","modified_gmt":"2021-11-28T03:10:12","slug":"this-1600-year-old-goblet-shows-that-the-romans-were-nanotechnology-pioneers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/2013\/08\/29\/this-1600-year-old-goblet-shows-that-the-romans-were-nanotechnology-pioneers\/","title":{"rendered":"This 1,600-Year-Old Goblet Shows that the Romans Were Nanotechnology Pioneers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.smithsonianmag.com\/history-archaeology\/This-1600-Year-Old-Goblet-Shows-that-the-Romans-Were-Nanotechnology-Pioneers-220563661.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/phenomenon-Glow-With-Flow-631.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The glass chalice, known as the Lycurgus Cup because it bears a scene involving King Lycurgus of Thrace, appears jade green when lit from the front but blood-red when lit from behind\u00e2\u20ac\u201da property that puzzled scientists for decades after the museum acquired the cup in the 1950s. The mystery wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t solved until 1990, when researchers in England scrutinized broken fragments under a microscope and discovered that the Roman artisans were nanotechnology pioneers: They\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d impregnated the glass with particles of silver and gold, ground down until they were as small as 50 nanometers in diameter, less than one-thousandth the size of a grain of table salt. The exact mixture of the precious metals suggests the Romans knew what they were doing\u00e2\u20ac\u201d\u00e2\u20ac\u0153an amazing feat,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d says one of the researchers, archaeologist Ian Freestone of University College London.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smithsonianmag.com\/history-archaeology\/This-1600-Year-Old-Goblet-Shows-that-the-Romans-Were-Nanotechnology-Pioneers-220563661.html\">This 1,600-Year-Old Goblet Shows that the Romans Were Nanotechnology Pioneers | History &amp; Archaeology | Smithsonian Magazine<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Romans artisans who created the Lycurgus Cup (a 1600 year old goblet) were nanotechnology pioneers as their goblet contains particles of silver and gold ground down to 50 nanometers, about one-thousandth the size of a grain of salt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[804,805,803],"class_list":["post-3476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-did-you-know","tag-chalice","tag-nanotechnology","tag-roman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3476"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3476\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3484,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3476\/revisions\/3484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}