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New form of superhard carbon observed
http://www.physorg.com ^ | 11 Oct 2011 | Provided by Carnegie Institution

Posted on 10/13/2011 10:58:04 AM PDT by Red Badger

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A small rod of glassy carbon.

1 posted on 10/13/2011 10:58:08 AM PDT by Red Badger
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To: SunkenCiv

/mark


2 posted on 10/13/2011 11:02:59 AM PDT by KoRn (Department of Homeland Security, Certified - "Right Wing Extremist")
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To: Red Badger

Depending how much it weighs, I can see this being used to protect soldiers or other kinds of shirlding if it can be produced in mass quantities.


3 posted on 10/13/2011 11:03:15 AM PDT by Jonty30
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” The team was led by Stanford’s Wendy L. Mao and her graduate student Yu Lin and includes Carnegie’s Ho-kwang (Dave) Mao, Li Zhang, Paul Chow, Yuming Xiao, Maria Baldini, and Jinfu Shu “

Stanford?? Or a Chinese Farming Village??


4 posted on 10/13/2011 11:03:59 AM PDT by Uncle Ike (Rope is cheap, and there are lots of trees...)
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To: Red Badger
Maybe one day we will have elevators to lower earth orbit?

Read that in a book one time, can't think of the author or title.

5.56mm

5 posted on 10/13/2011 11:04:08 AM PDT by M Kehoe
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To: M Kehoe

Aurthur Clarke wrote some books about that, actually it was to a higher orbit than that, but as I recall, they used a type of “string diamond” to do it.. this sounds a lot like that.


6 posted on 10/13/2011 11:10:06 AM PDT by Paradox (The rich SHOULD be paying more taxes, and they WOULD, if they could make more money.)
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To: Red Badger
anvils<\i>??? All the blacksmiths will be happy.
7 posted on 10/13/2011 11:11:32 AM PDT by ImJustAnotherOkie (zerogottago)
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To: Uncle Ike

I’m sure they are all good Americans...........


8 posted on 10/13/2011 11:11:52 AM PDT by Red Badger (Furthermore, I think Obama must be impeached....................)
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More info:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glassy_carbon


9 posted on 10/13/2011 11:13:40 AM PDT by Red Badger (Furthermore, I think Obama must be impeached....................)
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To: ImJustAnotherOkie
Anvil is the canonical term for what we think of as a vice or pressure cell. The first diamonds were synthesized in a tetrahedral anvil (pressure cell) and simultaneously heated to high temperature to simulate the hydrostatic pressure that exists in the earth's mantle.
10 posted on 10/13/2011 11:17:37 AM PDT by SpaceBar
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To: SpaceBar

And you thought I didn’t know that??? /s/


11 posted on 10/13/2011 11:19:26 AM PDT by ImJustAnotherOkie (zerogottago)
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To: Uncle Ike
Noone stopped Anglo-saxon Americans from having lots of babies and raising them to work hard in math and science and go to top schools and become physicists. The fact that Chinese Americans have done this only speaks highly of them.

I am sure you can find plenty of Dick and Jane types names at the Occupy Wall Street protest. Perhaps instead of telling 2 entire generations that the most important thing is some ethereal "happiness" we should have stressed things like, financial security, responsibility and honor.

12 posted on 10/13/2011 11:19:49 AM PDT by douginthearmy
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To: Red Badger

bflr


13 posted on 10/13/2011 11:20:14 AM PDT by Captain Beyond (The Hammer of the gods! (Just a cool line from a Led Zep song))
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To: M Kehoe

“Friday” by Robert Heinlein. He called them “Beanstalks”.


14 posted on 10/13/2011 11:23:49 AM PDT by Lurker (The avalanche has begun. The pebbles no longer have a vote.)
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To: M Kehoe

Arthur C Clark, “The Fountains of Paradise” is credited with the notion, though variants are older. Google “space elevator”. A very long rope tethered to the earth, long enough that its center of gravity is beyond geostationary orbit, will remain vertical. The rope must be strong enough, stronger than current materials allow yet physics/chemistry indicates suitable materials are indeed possible. Efforts are underway to encourage the technology needed to build a space elevator.


15 posted on 10/13/2011 11:24:16 AM PDT by ctdonath2 ($1 meals: http://abuckaplate.blogspot.com/)
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To: Red Badger

That’s nothing. Check Obama’s skull.


16 posted on 10/13/2011 11:27:54 AM PDT by Defiant (We now have a Rabble-Rouser In Chief instead of a President.)
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To: Red Badger

Well thats nice, but when can I buy my +6 Grandmaster Armor already? Dragons aint gonna off themselves!


17 posted on 10/13/2011 11:29:08 AM PDT by Soothesayer9
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To: douginthearmy
"Perhaps instead of telling 2 entire generations that the most important thing is some ethereal "happiness" we should have stressed things like, financial security, responsibility and honor."

The Chinese also don't have the punishing EPA regs that we do. They dont give a damn about smog, spotted owls, or lake pollution. Macau is friendlier to business than the U.S. is, but at the end of the day they are still COMMUNISTS and quite proud of it. A friend who lived in China asked many there what they thought on 9/11. The overwhelming response was "they finally got a bloody nose and they deserved it!".

18 posted on 10/13/2011 11:33:22 AM PDT by Soothesayer9
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Will do no good against dragons. Carbon burns............


19 posted on 10/13/2011 11:35:17 AM PDT by Red Badger (Furthermore, I think Obama must be impeached....................)
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To: Jonty30
Specific gravity 1.51! Withstands extreme heat.

Sounds like a candidate for engine blocks, bearings, races, etc.

Be still my gas-powered heart!

20 posted on 10/13/2011 11:35:27 AM PDT by Aevery_Freeman (The road to hell is paved with plastic.)
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