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Another Form of Carbon: Magnetic Nanofoam

Posted by timothy on from the foamy-goodness dept.

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!"

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  1. Finally... by ebrandsberg · · Score: 4, Funny

    A new form of carbon that wasn't predicted by SciFi!