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What is a material more easily cut than shattered? [closed]
I'm currently developing a sci-fi concept for animation which partially involves a typical "the earth has been overrun by XYZ" scenario.
One of the ideas for XYZ we're thinking of is a species of ...
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Freezing all the water on earth with a seed crystal
I was recently reading the satirical, fictional book Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut. In this book, one of the major subplots is the invention of a mythical polymorph of ice called ice-9 in the book. In ...
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Does mercury fulminate really look like crystal methamphetamine?
In the AMC series Breaking Bad , Walter (aka Heisenberg) smuggles in a bag of mercury fulminate under the guise of crystal methamphetamine and threatens to blow the room up if he doesn't get his money....
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