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Diamonds into protective barrier
Theoretically, is it possible to make a large, transparent piece of armor or a shield from a diamond?
Say, a piece of the said armor with a size $7^\prime \times 7^\prime \times 6^{\prime\prime}$?
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Is a compound composed out of gold, manganese, xenon, krypton, and oxalate possible?
Please keep in mind while reading this that I do not intend to create this, it is part of the backstory for a video game I am producing.
I created a compound based on knowledge from my chemistry ...
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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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