<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Trivia for me: did they ever find a compound like xenon tetrafluoride for the other inert gases? bill w<br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Dec 1, 2014 at 9:19 AM, spike <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:spike66@att.net" target="_blank">spike66@att.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div link="blue" vlink="purple" lang="EN-US"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><div><div style="border:none;border-top:solid #b5c4df 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in"><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> extropy-chat [mailto:<a href="mailto:extropy-chat-bounces@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank">extropy-chat-bounces@lists.extropy.org</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Anders Sandberg<br><b><span style="color:#1f497d">…</span></b></span><u></u><u></u></p></div></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d">>…</span>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. <u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">Carbides are generally quite awesome<span style="color:#1f497d">…</span> <span style="color:#1f497d"> </span>Anders Sandberg<span style="color:#1f497d">…<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">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.<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><u></u><u></u></font></span></span></p><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">spike <u></u><u></u></span></p></font></span></div></div></div><br>_______________________________________________<br>
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