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Another Form of Carbon: Magnetic Nanofoam
mhh5 writes "Researchers publishing in Nature have discovered yet another form of carbon. Apparently, this stuff is temporarily magnetic after it is made (at temperatures of ~10,000 C) and is a spongy solid. So that's five (give or take one?) allotropes for carbon: amorphous, graphite, diamond, fullerenes, and nanofoam. Collect them all!"
gets all the diamonds we can afford you insensitive clod!
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A new form of carbon that wasn't predicted by SciFi!
Showoff :)
I just did a report for my Engineering and Architectural Design concerning the use of carbon-nanotubes.... and not one single person, student or faculty, had ever heard of them. This is wholly depressing, BUT afterwards several students and a few teachers came to talk to me privately about it, and ask for more information.
Does anyone else think that scientific news actually DESERVES and NEEDS to be heard by the general populace? Even if they don't get it, they'll still know about it. Hell, most of them probably don't get The Apprentice, but they keep watching.
I like to place meaningful quotes in my sig, so people will know that I know what meaningful quotes are.
Diamonds aren't forever, but they will last longer than your marriage.
Not if you heat them up and dunk them in liquid oxygen. They don't last very long at all if you do that.
And if it's still on her finger at the time, your marriage won't last long either!
Hey kids, there's only 5 days left 'til Yak Shaving Day!