{"id":8609,"date":"2019-08-16T12:45:17","date_gmt":"2019-08-16T02:45:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/?p=8609"},"modified":"2019-08-16T12:48:08","modified_gmt":"2019-08-16T02:48:08","slug":"what-is-beach-foam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/nature\/marine-biology\/what-is-beach-foam\/","title":{"rendered":"What is beach &#8216;foam&#8217;?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8610\" src=\"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/ScreenShot08993.jpg\" alt=\"Image: Brocken Inaglory\" width=\"1331\" height=\"1152\" srcset=\"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/ScreenShot08993.jpg 1331w, https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/ScreenShot08993-300x260.jpg 300w, https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/ScreenShot08993-768x665.jpg 768w, https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/ScreenShot08993-1024x886.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1331px) 100vw, 1331px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Beach foam is produced from proteins. The white beach foam is due to fat and protein in ocean water, which the surf &#8216;whips&#8217;, just like whipped cream.<\/p>\n<p>Animals and plants in both salty and fresh water constantly liberate fat and protein molecules. As waves wash up on the shore, the substances are whipped into foam.<\/p>\n<p>The algal foam is produced because proteins merge into long chains or polymers. Algal protein can be harvested and used to make reusable thermoplastics.<\/p>\n<p>Particularly durable foam could collect into major &#8216;bands&#8217; on the beach, even fly through the air. The durability is often due to high concentrations of dead Phaeocystis algae.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beach foam is produced from proteins. The white beach foam is due to fat and protein in ocean water, which the surf &#8216;whips&#8217;, just like whipped cream. Animals and plants in both salty&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":8610,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52,98,45,32],"tags":[887,886,74],"class_list":["post-8609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ask-us","category-biology","category-environment","category-marine-biology","tag-beach","tag-beach-foam","tag-science-2"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8609"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8609"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8609\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8611,"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8609\/revisions\/8611"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}