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To: blue_chip who wrote (2664)	7/20/1999 1:30:00 PM
From: AriKirA	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 6016

not quite sure if the following was already mentioned on this thread but apparently physicist Jianyi Lin and a team at the National University of Singapore are using tiny graphite cylinders (a few dozen atoms in diameter) known as carbon nanotubes to overcome the storage difficulties incurred with liquid hydrogen. Apparently when laced with lithium and potassium, each tube can attract and hold a surprisingly large number of hydrogen atoms AT NORMAL PRESSURE. Moreover, these tubes can discharge and reabsorb the gas many times without a decrease in absorptive power. There was an article in this regard in the July 2 issue of Science as well as the July 19 issue of Business Week Kind regards Ari