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Old 15-June-2006, 02:42 PM
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Interesting article on carbonia based materials. Predicted to exist inside gas giants. Now created here on earth.

Carbonia glass

Is there somewhere one can post these links as potential news candidates for the Universetoday web site?

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Welcome to BAUT antonsoarer. Interesting article. But there is this little issue, mentioned in the article
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The next stage of the research is to work out how to make the glass stable at room temperature and pressure.
I suspect that will be very hard to do.

I would suggest you post things like this in the General Science forum.
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Thread moved from "Universe Today Website Feedback" to "General Science."
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I'm not clear, is this merely frozen carbon dioxide or a coordinate covalanet solid like quartz?

And in either case if it grew slowly as the planet collapsed on itself wouldn't it be crystaline?
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