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Yale-Led Team Solves Half-Century Carbon-Crystal Mystery

Posted by timothy on from the fold-here-bend-there dept.

slew writes "Unlike its more famous carbon cousins: diamonds and fullerenes, you've probably never heard of M-Carbon, but this form of compressed graphite which is as hard as diamonds has baffled researcher for half a century. Over the past few years, many theoretical computations have suggested at least a dozen different crystal structures for this phase of carbon, but new experiments showed that only one crystal structure fits the data: M-carbon."

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  1. Which researcher? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    this form of compressed graphite which is as hard as diamonds has baffled researcher

    Though he has been baffled, his name has not been released.

    1. Re:Which researcher? by king+neckbeard · · Score: 3, Funny

      He's probably so baffled, he can't even remember his name. Poor fellow.

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  2. Re:What a badly written piece by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Only one logical fallacy fits the headline: tautology.

    What is tautology? For years Scientists have been baffled by this logical fallacy. Recent research has indicated it can be only one thing: tautology.