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I wonder if it would make a good fire retardant. The water would heat up and make steam and burst out along with some CO2 trapped in it.
It wouldn't be as good as Aerogel [1] which is a similar silica nano-particle based structure. It contains air as opposed to water so conducts very little heat. [1] http://www.aerogel.org/?p=1929
Throwback to the greatest debate of all time: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPDdRrMVEnA
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You've just unironically and contextually used what's currently the longest recognized word in the English language in an unforced manner. There has to be a prize for this.
I'm sure it gets used at dry water research meetings all the time.
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This is amazing. They both give pretty compelling arguments. Can anyone else throw anything else into the ring? Is a fish wet?
There's water in the air, so everything in the air is actually wet based on that line of reasoning.
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Patents are only a problem for technologies with successful application. Ideally, once you have covered the R&D cost, it should be free for all. Technologies without successful application is the interesting case. With patents, like in this case, they are locked for a while, but at least someone can pick them up. The alternative is to become lost in the archive of some R&D department. That said, that's difficult to s…
Ideally, once you have covered the R&D cost, it should be free for all. Not unless the R&D cost includes all of the R&D into unsuccessful products that didn't get productized. Also complicating the debate is pharmaceuticals, where you're also covering the cost of FDA approval, clinical trials, etc. Per https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cost_of_drug_development this cost comes out to several billion per successful drug am…
I wonder if it would make a good fire retardant. The water would heat up and make steam and burst out along with some CO2 trapped in it.
It wouldn't be as good as Aerogel [1] which is a similar silica nano-particle based structure. It contains air as opposed to water so conducts very little heat. [1] http://www.aerogel.org/?p=1929
There's now composites out there that are supposedly better though.
How does one reverse this process?
I imagine it's not much different that driving off the water from a hydrated mineral.