What about DiLythium Crystals.
I have a metallurgical problem. The iron in my blood has turned to lead in my butt. Is there a scientific correction for this? Thank you.
Duranium-neutronium mix?
NYT is covering up because Harry Reid funneled $22 million to his rich buddy. Probably why Podesta was touting UFOs.
They continue to say stuff like this, even after the periodic table continues to expand. What about unobtanium!?
OTOH, I would not be at all surprised that there are plenteous useful allotropes of common materials that we've yet to identify and characterize.
Consider the common element, Carbon: engineers are just beginning to explore the usefulness of newly-discovered allotropes like buckminsterfullerene and graphene -- as well as higher-order microstructures such as nanotubules, etc...
I'd say we're just beginning to explore the riches of materials science!
Show me some transparent aluminum and I’ll believe it.
The article takes an idiotically simple view of metallurgy by ignoring that the processing and arrangement of elemental metals can drastically affect the behavior of alloys. The reporter was likely sent out to solicit disparaging views from experts and got what was instructed.
Yabbut, it sounds so cool to the liberal idiots that read the NYT.
Adamantium?
Vibranium?
Uru?
Gorp doesn’t occur naturally in nature either - takes special blending skills....
I liked this quote at the end: “As for whether there’s an explanation at least for the metals themselves, Sachleben said: “There’s not as many mysteries in science as people like to think. It’s not like we know everything — we don’t know everything. But most things we know enough about to know what we don’t know.”
I think this Sachleben should be nominated for the double-speak award, for 2018. I think he’d win too.