[ExI] Carbides (Was: hacked email)

[William Flynn Wallace]

Trivia for me:  did they ever find a compound like xenon tetrafluoride for
the other inert gases?  bill w

On Mon, Dec 1, 2014 at 9:19 AM, spike <spike66 at att.net> wrote:

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> *From:* extropy-chat [mailto:extropy-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org] *On
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> >…I briefly looked at jewels, and found silicon carbide (moissanite) to
> be intriguing. Again, way cheaper than diamond, almost as hard, and with
> great optical properties.
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> Carbides are generally quite awesome…  Anders Sandberg…
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> Who woulda thunk.  We have this periodic table with over a 100 elements on
> it.  Most of them are really boring.  We have five of them will not react
> at all, and really most of the rest will do some things but one element,
> just one very special element does so many things and does them so well.
> It forms super hard materials, combined with iron it makes steel, it gets
> together in ways that trap energy, moves around, swapping in and out other
> elements.  In a most wonderful manner, it becomes self-aware: my carbon
> knows about itself.
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