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That article is from years ago, and this current article is based on a paper published a few weeks ago. Science advances.
by CountHackulus 13y ago
That article is from years ago, and this current article is based on a paper published a few weeks ago. Science advances.
- ChuckMcM 13y agoActually not so much. Reading the article it talks about the difference between trying to infer the possibility from the reality, and the OP is a theoretical result. Basically this stuff has never been seen "for real" as far as we (and scholar.google.com) seem to know. I did learn something new though, which is the exothermic properties of carbyne re-assembling itself into more stable configurations is pretty amazing. If nothing else, if you could make carbyne and stabilize it, and then destabilize it on demand, it would make for a heck of an explosive and one with presumably no nitrogen atoms. The implications of that are pretty obvious.
- Daniel_Newby 13y agoThe implication is that we design a carbyne detector and get filthy rich selling it to the Department of Fatherland Carbyne.
- ChuckMcM 13y agoHeh, I like that idea. Since its highly improbable anyone will make one anytime soon, we can sell them a detector with meters and lights and screens maybe for millions of dollars, which can't detect anything but will have a perfect success record!