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I love that this was the result of a mistake, and the brief note about the only available reference material for part of their work being in Russian. Sounds lik
by emhart 13y ago
I love that this was the result of a mistake, and the brief note about the only available reference material for part of their work being in Russian. Sounds like the makings of an excellent story.
- igravious 13y agoAgreed. Quoth he, "A Thursday afternoon in 2011, we slightly changed the synthesis parameters of the earlier employed unsuccessful attempts, and by mistake left the material in the reaction chamber over the weekend. Back at work on Monday morning we discovered that a rigid gel had formed and after drying this gel we started to get excited, says Johan Goméz de la Torre." It is in fact slightly disturbing and somehow heartening how many discoveries are the result of mishap.