Young Emirati makes breakthrough invention

Khaleej Times ^ | February 26, 2017 | Jasmine Al Kuttab

[DainBramage]

I have a graphene calculator.

[xp38]

Oscars red carpet questioner....Who are you wearing? Graphene!

[Chickensoup]

I think that there were TWO scientists working on this project, and not just the Emerites guy.

This is another time that it is politically correct to single out the Moslim only

[Chickensoup]

>No one thought you could combine graphite with diamond

Yeah, who would of thought two compounds made from the same element could be combined.
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the sarcasm is large here.

[sphinx]

And these are just the things we can imagine. Imagine, if we can, all the things we haven’t even thought of yet that this kind of tech will make happen. Will space travel at or faster than the speed of light be on the next horizon? What about folding space and time to simulate a wormhole for space travel?

Just new tools to perpetuate cismale, heterosexist, eurocentric patriarchial domination. None of these innovations will be complete until a robust reparations mechanism is in place to ensure that LGTB and POC victims are fully compensated. It's not even clear if interim indulgences have been purchased. Is the Clinton Foundation still open for such purposes?

[teeman8r]

In a sad note, the young emerald called home to share the news and three of his cousins blew up

[puppypusher]

“
Maybe they can make a finally make a powerful computer that can correctly filter out all your spam emails.”

Maybe they can build a computer that won’t crash while your right in the middle of an important project.
I just hate when that occurs.

[Cboldt]

No one thought you could combine graphite with diamond ... --

   Just by chance you crossed the diamond with the pearl
   You turned it on the world
   That's when you turned the world around

[Wuli]

How plentiful are graphite and diamonds?

For an idea to achieve very wide use, what the raw material it needs must be economically available as to must be the method of production.

Discovering something in the lab does not always translate into a massively usable thing in the real world.

In 2000 the U.S. mined/produce no graphite domestically. Principal import sources of natural graphite were
China, Canada, Mexico, Japan, Madagascar, and Brazil, in
order of tonnages, which accounted for 89% of the value of
total imports. Mexico continued to be the major supplier of
amorphous graphite and Sri Lanka provided the lump variety.
A number of other producers supplied various types and grades of graphite to the United States, among the more notable being Japan and Germany.

China remains today the world’s largest source of graphite.

https://minerals.usgs.gov/minerals/pubs/commodity/graphite/310400.pdf

A USGS report on U.S. dependence on minerals in 2013, covering 1990 to 2010, shows production of graphite in the world at 72% for China, 12% for India and 7% for Brazil - as the top three producers (with none in the U.S.). [You have to read through a lot of text or also open the Excel spreadsheet the report references and has a link for.]

https://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2013/1184/pdf/ofr2013-1184.pdf

The diamond picture is much different. The U.S. is the largest producer and user of synthetic diamonds for industry. Our use is so large that imports are needed to supplement the domestic use.

As far as industrial diamonds mined naturally, the top sources are Australia, Botswana, Congo and Russia.

https://minerals.usgs.gov/minerals/pubs/commodity/diamond/diamomyb03.pdf

[TXnMA]

"Yeah, who would of thought two compounds made from the same element could be combined."

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Not "compounds" -- allotropes.

Morphological analogues of isotropes...

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Thar ain't no sech annymule as a single-element "compound"... '-)

[TXnMA]

"You copied and pasted that just to dazzle us, di'nt ya?"

...and far from the first time it has been so-posted...

[TXnMA]

"Millions"?

Silly me -- I'd consider 2X a "breakthrough"...

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BTW, thanks for posting; this is a fun thread -- actually has a few "thinkers" on it... '-)

[PapaBear3625]

To put their theory to test, the team purchased a molecule model kit from Amazon for Dh6000.

They have not actually CREATED this wonder material. They just ran a model of what the properties SHOULD be, if anyone actually was able to create it.

[HandyDandy]

It is a particular favorite passage of mine. A rare gem from the scientific community. I can’t tell if it is prose or poetry. It is somewhat reminiscent of Lewis Carrolls “The Jabberwocky”. A word like “graphene” needs a definition like that.

[TXnMA]

It's my long-held opinion (as a physical chemist) that the jargon of any sufficiently-advanced scientific specialty will be as incomprehensible to incognoscenti as a foreign language... '-)