Comment Re:LA has amazing surplus (Score 1) 94
APEX and C&H in Pasadena were my favorite places to hunt for robot parts in the 70s. Really miss it. Nothing comparable that I have seen in Singapore, where I now live.
Chemists Synthesize "Impossible" Molecule 9
neilest writes "Organic chemistry textbooks will need to be revised to recognize a chemical species that chemists have discovered at Northwestern University. The species -- pentamethylcyclopentadienyl cation -- was thought not to exist for long because theory said it was unstable. The full story can be found at this suntimes article"
