<div dir="ltr">Err...wasn't it already known that you could get unusual ionic configurations at high temperatures, some of which were stable at room temperature even if they couldn't be made at room temperature?<br>
</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 5:29 PM, David Lubkin <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:lubkin@unreasonable.com" target="_blank">lubkin@unreasonable.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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SBU Team Discovers New Compounds that Challenge the Foundation of Chemistry<br>
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Fascinating possibilities for reality and for hard sf. This is bigger than fullerenes. Perhaps on par with the discovery of semiconductors in its potential ramifications.<br>
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