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- From: mueller@b30news.b30.ingr.com ( Phil Mueller )
- Subject: Re: Inappropriate rejections in science (was: Truzzi Lecture)
- Message-ID: <1993Jan12.220721.12275@b30.ingr.com>
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- References: <1in24aINNb2f@im4u.cs.utexas.edu> <104225@netnews.upenn.edu> <1993Jan10.234750.25011@blaze.cs.jhu.edu>
- Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 22:07:21 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan10.234750.25011@blaze.cs.jhu.edu> arromdee@jyusenkyou.cs.jhu.edu (Ken Arromdee) writes:
- >In article <104225@netnews.upenn.edu> weemba@sagi.wistar.upenn.edu (Matthew P Wiener) writes:
- >>The chemical reactivity of the heavier noble (fka inert) gases is
- >>something that anyone could have detected for decades, but didn't
- >>since everyone knew it simply could not happen.
- >
- >I recall Isaac Asimov mentioning in an essay (vague reference there :-). It
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- It was "Welcome, Stranger!", xenon being the Greek word for stranger.
- I forget which essay collection it was in. The point was that flourine was
- very dangerous, and chemists didn't know how to handle it until WW2. It
- was then used for Uraninium hexaflouride, and we all know why that was
- important.
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- Joel, Time of the Apes (??)
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