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Graphene Can Be Made With Table Sugar
Zothecula writes with this snippet from Gizmag: "There's no doubt that the discovery of graphene is one sweet breakthrough. The remarkable material offers everything from faster, cooler electronics and cheaper lithium-ion batteries to faster DNA sequencing and single-atom transistors. Researchers at Rice University have made graphene even sweeter by developing a way to make pristine sheets of the one-atom-thick form of carbon from plain table sugar and other carbon-based substances. In another plus, the one-step process takes place at temperatures low enough to make the wonder material easy to manufacture."
Discovery = invention. The distinction between the two is a distinction without a difference. Yes, I'm saying that you can say that you invented America when you found it, and that you discovered the automobile if you invented it. It's just that we like to use one word in some circumstances and the other word in other circumstances. However, this reflects only our own idiosyncrasies and reflects nothing about reality. In that way the distinction is like that between "is" and "are". It's about what we like to do rather than reality.