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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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  2. Re:Alternative uses by docbrown42 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

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  3. Re:Building Materials by seigniory · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    that was so not funny

  4. Best .sig so far by EnglishTim · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    My Other machine is your Linux Box

    Ha ha ha ha

    Much funnier than the comment.

  5. Itchy & Scratchy Land by raoulortega · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    So that's why you can use flash photography to defeat the bezerk robots.