[nathanbedford]

The work was supported by the U.S. Department of Energy, the National Science Foundation and the Office of Naval Research.

Assuming this stuff is the greatest thing since the silicone chip, who owns it? Evidently we paid for it, is it in the public domain?

[TXnMA]

"silicone" is the stuffing for phony balloon boobs.

"silicon" is sand minus its oxygen -- a semimetallic, common semiconductor..

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Please refrain from leading our technical minds astray! '-)