Re: The Nanogirl News~

From: John K Clark (jonkc@att.net)
Date: Mon May 26 2003 - 08:18:01 MDT

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    > Every molecule could be called nano-whatever. Is
    > there any special reason carbon nanotubes get that label?

    Well, it's manufactured, we can make lots of it, soon we'll be able to make
    big things out of it, if just one atom was out of place we could tell and it
    would be wrong.

    >We don't refer to nano-rna

    Historic reasons. RNA occurs naturally and when it was first discovered the
    word "Nanotechnology " had not yet been invented.

       John K Clark jonkc@att.net



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