Brand new substance created from water


	Brand new substance created from water

Octane

10-27-2006 9:41 AM

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chemistry, science, physics

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10-27-2006 10:50 AM

egoldstein

Fascinating. So many mysteries about our world still to be discovered.

10-27-2006 10:53 AM

bignosemousie

Reminds me of that story about Ice 9.

10-27-2006 10:57 AM

bignosemousie

Ice 9, by Kurt Vonnegut.

10-27-2006 11:01 AM

Octane

For some reason, all I could imagine was exploding ice cubes...

10-27-2006 10:26 PM

Godfrey Daniel

Perfect linkage there, Miss Mousie

10-27-2006 10:59 PM

pthiefofhearts

Amazing, but does the fact that the research is being done by Los Alamos make anyone else vaguely uneasy?

10-28-2006 12:43 AM

RecordSage

No, it's their job to do research there... provided they don't have any more Chinese spies on staff, of course.

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