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Carbon Magnets At Room Temperature

Posted by chrisd on from the spin-me-right-round-baby dept.

Bolie writes: "Trying to make high temperature super conductors yielded an unexpected result. The pure carbon bucky ball material was put under pressure to make sheets. That worked. Picture microscopic bubble pack. But the result was a sheet that was magnetic at room temperature. It has not escaped the attention of the discoverer, Tatiana Makarova, that this might be useful for a non-metallic computer memory. The material is also lighter than metals, flexible and transparent. Lasers anyone?"

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  1. Second Frost Pist by premier · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Also, first interracial sex post.

    Oh the humanity!

  2. Re:Let me get this straight... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    How is Stephen King getting on these days, anyway?

  3. Re:Let me get this straight... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    The souls of the victims are watching in horror as you people squander your finite, precious time on this earth playing video games!

    At least we have working fingers to play video games and working eyes to look at the picture. The dead don't. How people spend their spare time is not your business.

    Anyway, yesterday there was a Palestinian assassination of a Hitler-like politician in Israel (I know, Jews can't have thoughts like Hitler, but this guy did - he wanted to ship all Arabs off to Mecca and keep them there). In response, the Israeli army bravely bombed a Palestinian school, killing one 11 year old girl and injuring another. The question is: Who is the real terrorist force?

  4. Re:250 degrees ? 200 ? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    Yes, but when they cut and pasted it into this story, the bloody hyphen appeared didn't it? So the moderators who moderated these comments up are inept, and the posters should preview their comments!

    Please use formkeys for the category - you what?

  5. sTUpId cARboN rOd ... DOH ! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic


    Homer: Stupid carbon rod. It's all just a popularity contest!
    Bart: Wow! Did you actually get to _see_ the rod?

    Deep Space Homer

    Scroll to #9 ...

    [1F13] Deep Space Homer

  6. Re:Why the exotic ideas? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Think core memory... ;)

  7. backups by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    there you go