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- inactive, on 11/21/2008, -1/+169Here's hoping it's less toxic than Teflon.
- emecks, on 11/21/2008, -4/+88The best inventions are discovered by accident :)
- HeavyDose, on 11/22/2008, -2/+71Did the accident involve a banana peel and a hilarious fall?
- ObeseSnake, on 11/21/2008, -0/+69199?
- samoan27, on 11/21/2008, -0/+56Won't it be great to catch a roommate using a metal fork to stir his food in your new non-stick pan and not care!?
- inactive, on 11/22/2008, -3/+52my friend figured out if you hollow out a squash, microwave it, put it between the mattresses, and make love to it, it feels like a vagina by accident
- datagod, on 11/22/2008, -0/+46"BAM, as the material is called, was discovered at the US Department of Energy Ames Laboratory in Iowa in 199, during attempts to develop a substance to generate electricity when heated."
Wow...why did they wait so long to release the formula? Wouldn't that stuff have come handy during the crusades or something? - LilRabbitFooFoo, on 11/22/2008, -0/+42The Second Century was HUGE on new alchemical properties research! 8P
- xsuite, on 11/22/2008, -0/+36This metal needs a common name.
My vote is "mithril." - Owwmykneecap, on 11/22/2008, -1/+33Serendipity.
It's a word specifically for use in such cases. Please use it. - ExRe, on 11/22/2008, -0/+29Teflon was also discovered by accident.
- Cancerous, on 11/22/2008, -1/+29Iowa is 1800 years behind the rest of the world.
- ExRe, on 11/22/2008, -0/+27If this is food safe I would ***** bricks. Not only is it slicker than teflon, but it is harder than anything you'll have in your kitchen, so nothing could scratch it. I just wonder how high of a heat this will material will take, it would be awesome if it was as heat resilient as cast iron.
- thepoliticalcat, on 11/21/2008, -0/+25Scientists, please please please get the medical technologists and designers to use it in replacement body parts!
- CIAVT, on 11/22/2008, -0/+25"Adoption by the porn industry will lead to widespread acceptance over time."
- linkdj, on 11/22/2008, -0/+21It's actually supposed to be "2199", this information has come from the future.
- jjk7288, on 11/22/2008, -0/+21If that "199" was supposed to be "1999", why are we just now hearing about this?
- rupertmorris, on 11/22/2008, -0/+20Not really. Bearings are extremely high-precision devices. Frying pans have a lot more room for low tolerances ;)
- inactive, on 11/22/2008, -3/+23Bill Clinton?
- omjeremy, on 11/22/2008, -1/+18Awesome!
At first I thought this was a DailyMail article (you know digg...), but when I saw it was posted on a legitimate website I became interested. - Fortississimo, on 11/22/2008, -1/+15And so was Viagra.
- GarrettGrimsley, on 11/22/2008, -0/+13They already use adamantium, why downgrade to this?
- austang, on 11/22/2008, -1/+13Teflon also emits poisonous gases, which can kill birds, puppydogs, and cause mental illness in small children.
- 13B1303, on 11/22/2008, -1/+13there is more to material removal than just hardness. Hardness may reduce tool wear but the low friction of this material means a tool could possibly be run faster and not build as much heat. Reduced production time is big bucks!
- AEnkryption, on 11/22/2008, -0/+12The most important thing most of us learned by accident: masturbation.
- doublefelix, on 11/22/2008, -1/+12Why not coat cylinders and all the moving parts of an internal combustion engine for an oil-free ride with much, much less engine wear? "BAM is much slipperier than Teflon, with a coefficient of friction of .02 compared to .05. Lubricated steel has a friction coefficient of 0.16." Sounds like like there would be 8X less resistance between two coated metals in contact than steel coated with engine oil. "It's almost as if it's a self-lubricating surface. You don't need to add oil or other lubricants. It's inherently slippery."
- vivvivtzz, on 11/22/2008, -3/+14slick
- DutchGuilder, on 11/22/2008, -1/+11It costs $500 for a set of ceramic-coated automobile bearings. I'd guess a ceramic-coated frying pay would cost about $5000.
- bjhath, on 11/22/2008, -1/+10The more important question: Will it blend?
- metapop, on 11/22/2008, -0/+9slick + hard = more efficent engines... make it so.
i wonder what the max temperature is? - Tynan, on 11/22/2008, -0/+9Or rather, 1800 years ahead.
So that's why the Iowans had such slippery awesome tomahawks! - TSK05, on 11/22/2008, -1/+9I didn't ask for meaning... I already googled it. That's why I said couldn't instead of can't...
- DRT23, on 11/22/2008, -1/+9I accidentally ceramic alloy.
- shiv68, on 11/22/2008, -0/+8
This technology was actually stolen from Clark Griswold. - BlueTunicLink, on 11/22/2008, -2/+10http://tinyurl.com/5krkjw
- li0n, on 11/22/2008, -1/+9Nylon was discovered by accident.
- RyomaNagare, on 11/22/2008, -3/+10Also Teflon only emits toxic gasses if heated to really high temperatures, like if you left your pan in the stove for a whole day with nothing cooking on it.
But I guess that doesn't make any sense.
Anyway the minute some people started bashing on Teflon, I knew they were coming with something better, to make you change all your stuff.
that said, I'm convinced this is a real breakthrough, kind of when the rare-earth magnets popularized in the early nineties.
[sarcasm]
Now I'll go worry about some other FUD, this radiation I'm being exposed... its a high dosage of Non-Ionizing Ultra-red/Infra Violet Radiation, and I'm being exposed to it in a daily basis, someone please help me...
[/sarcasm] - VINLANDER, on 11/22/2008, -1/+8Last digit is classified.
- Trigononamous, on 11/22/2008, -0/+7Hilarity Ensues!
- nerdherder, on 11/22/2008, -0/+7This ***** is so slick it can slide through the space time continuum.
- Duvali, on 11/22/2008, -2/+8don't forget about butt sex.
- KevinAndAlexRoc, on 11/22/2008, -0/+6My dimondilium is harder then your dimondium
- k3rfuffl3, on 11/22/2008, -0/+6It's a ceramic so I'm guess pretty high. Issue with ceramics is that they're brittle so they're not as sturdy as metals. Otherwise we'd already be using them since the hotter an engine runs the more efficient it is. Also there's the issue of lubricants which can withstand such high temperature. If it works by attracting water molecules to the surface as it's suggested in the article that would not work in a 1000 F car engine.
- Shruthi99, on 11/22/2008, -2/+8I accidentally a material slicker than teflon. Is this bad, and what do I do now?
- krnldmp, on 11/22/2008, -3/+9Neat. Can you coat a piston with it?
- Synchro, on 11/22/2008, -0/+5That or non-dairy creamer, no one really knows how that stuff works anyways.
- unusualbob, on 11/22/2008, -0/+5Actually heres a list of what happens at each temperature:
464°F - Ultrafine particulate matter
680°F - Tetrafluoroethylene (TFE)
680°F - Hexafluoropropene (HFP):
680°F - Trifluoroacetic acid (TFA)
680°F - Difluoroacetic acid (DFA)
680°F - Monofluoroacetic acid (MFA, fluoroacetic acid or compound 1080)
680°F - Perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA)
878°F - Silicon tetrafluoride (SiF4)
There are more toxins as you go up in temp that I didnt list.
More details here if you want them: http://tuberose.com/Teflon.html - nyx210, on 11/22/2008, -1/+6Over 9,000 of course
- breadfred, on 11/22/2008, -0/+5Ahum. your friend? Sure it wasn't you?
- off to the supermarket to get a squash -
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