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Have you heard of the new material called Graphene .it's just one atom thick and 200 times stronger than steel and harder than diamonds.

Posted - July 21, 2018

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  • 46117
    How much does it cost?

    Can Trump build a SUPER DUPER WALL to keep our allies out with it?

      July 21, 2018 10:38 AM MDT
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  • 14795
    Seems fitting.....lol
      July 21, 2018 10:51 AM MDT
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  • 46117
    Sorry.  This deserves a sane answer.

    This stuff is marvelous.  It would be great if they could develop a breathable skin we could dip ourselves into and eliminate any need for hand guns ever again.

    Graphene
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    Not to be confused with Graphite, Grapheme, Graphane, or Graphyne.
    Graphene is an atomic-scale hexagonal lattice made of carbon atoms.

    Graphene is a semi-metal with a small overlap between the valence and the conduction bands (zero bandgap material).[1] It is an allotrope (form) of carbon consisting of a single layer of carbon atoms arranged in a hexagonal lattice.[2][3] It is the basic structural element of many other allotropes of carbon, such as graphite, diamond, charcoal, carbon nanotubes and fullerenes.
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    Graphene and its band structure and Dirac cones, effect of a grid on doping

    It can be considered as an indefinitely large aromatic molecule, the ultimate case of the family of flat polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons.[4]

    Graphene has many uncommon properties. It is the strongest material ever tested,[5] efficiently conducts heat and electricity, and is nearly transparent. Graphene shows a large and nonlinear diamagnetism,[6] greater than that of graphite, and can be levitated by neodymium magnets.

    Scientists theorized about graphene for years. It had been unintentionally produced in small quantities for centuries, through the use of pencils and other similar graphite applications. It was originally observed in electron microscopes in 1962, but it was studied only while supported on metal surfaces.[7] The material was later rediscovered, isolated, and characterized in 2004 by Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov at the University of Manchester.[8][9] Research was informed by existing theoretical descriptions of its composition, structure, and properties.[10] This work resulted in the two winning the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2010 "for groundbreaking experiments regarding the two-dimensional material
      July 21, 2018 10:40 AM MDT
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  • 14795
    I'm fasinated by sicence....Nano technology is just amazing and far far above me really...I've just been watching a documentary about it and found it all so fascinating... 
      July 21, 2018 10:49 AM MDT
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  • 46117
    I love that you are.   It is always something you say that we learn.  So, this is great.  I love it.

    Oh thank you, NJ.  Thanks for the choice pick.  So nice. 


    I LOVE THE UK more than I ever thought I would now.  I just wish they would have ripped him a new one on that podium.  But.... you guys know best. 

    This post was edited by WM BARR . =ABSOLUTE TRASH at July 21, 2018 1:49 PM MDT
      July 21, 2018 10:50 AM MDT
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  • 14795
    What's he done now....I don't listen to the news or buy newspapers....I can't stand the political crap they come out with and expect us to believe....
      July 21, 2018 1:57 PM MDT
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  • 44603
    Thanks, I had never heard of it.
      July 21, 2018 11:45 AM MDT
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  • 13071
    Yes of course I have, I invented it. ;+
      July 21, 2018 11:11 AM MDT
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  • 44603
    So that's what your spacecraft is made of.
      July 21, 2018 11:46 AM MDT
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  • 46117




    WAIT TILL THE SPACE FORCE IS FORMED





    This post was edited by WM BARR . =ABSOLUTE TRASH at July 21, 2018 11:58 AM MDT
      July 21, 2018 11:50 AM MDT
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  • 13071
    Yes. It creates my shiny appearance. ;)
      July 21, 2018 11:50 AM MDT
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  • 44603
    Shine on...
      July 21, 2018 11:59 AM MDT
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  • 22891
    never heard of it
      July 21, 2018 4:57 PM MDT
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