Re: The Nanogirl News~

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

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"Party of Citizens" <citizens@vcn.bc.ca>

> 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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