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Researchers Make Graphene From Girl Scout Cookies

Posted by timothy on Friday August 12, 2011 @12:36AM from the why-the-aliens-need-our-resources dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Last year we learned that the miracle material graphene could be made from common table sugar, and now researchers at Rice University have taken the discovery one step further by literally baking it from a box of girl scout cookies. A group of graduate students led by chemist James Tour recently teamed up with Houston Girl Scout troop 25080 to perform the feat using a single box of Trefoil cookies — which could potentially yield $15 billion worth of graphene."

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Re:Supply and demand by alta · 2011-08-12 00:48 · Score: 5, Funny

Because at the rate the dollar is going, in 5 years $15 billion is only going to buy you a box of girl scout cookies. And I'll take thinmint.

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Re:Pointless gimmick? by wsxyz · 2011-08-12 00:56 · Score: 5, Funny

No, it's an important way to get girls involved in research, so that they can learn at an early age that girls can do many different things, such as bake cookies for scientists.