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Petrified Wood In Days, Not Millions Of Years
prostoalex writes "Any petrified wood enthusiast would tell you that a quality product takes millions of years to mature, following Mother Nature's course, which, of course, is very frustrating for anyone experimenting. Pacific Northwest National Laboratory now managed to get the process in few days, USA Today says. The scientific achievement will be beneficial for "separating industrial chemicals, filtering pollutants and soaking up contamination"."
Heh. I don't think whatever process they're using will change the half-life of carbon-14. That's a nuclear process, not a chemical one.
It would be cool though, if you could accellerate radioactive decay that easilly. You could just blast your nuclear waste with it and not have to store any more nuclear waste far underground.
Any petrified wood enthusiast
A what now? Those exist?!