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Camera Flashes Kill Nanotubes

Posted by Hemos on from the smile-pretty-mr.-carbon-KA-WHAM dept.

Fnordmonger writes "New Scientist is running a story claiming that flash photography can cause nanotubes to explode. Basically , the carbon absorbs heat, which cannot be dissipated. Instead, the energy is released in an explosion. There is a cool video there of the stuff going off."

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  1. Not much of a story by johnburton · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    !!! Heat causes chemical reaction!!! --- No doesn't work even with 3 exclaimation marks.

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