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New "water" doesn't get anything wet

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...and guess who manufactures it.

Our favorite corporate-scandal-ridden company TYCO!

On Good Morning America they brought a fishtank full of the chemical -- called "Sapphire" -- and submerged multiple items into it, including a book, a running laptop, and a powered-on TV. They dried in seconds and none of them had any damage.

http://abclocal.go.com/wpvi/news/041320 ... phire.html#

This shiat is amazing. Its intended use is to put out fires in places like museums and homes where water would damage expensive stuff.
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Post by Tricord »

Nice... And now on to the ice cream that doesn't melt :)
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Post by Krom »

I've found some of that down in the freezer before Tri, I think it was 2 years old, nasty stuff.
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This sounds like one of those things that does everything so very, very well that as soon as you step in the room with it you have cancer...:-P
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Post by AceCombat »

thats pretty cool "Dry" water
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Topher wrote:This sounds like one of those things that does everything so very, very well that as soon as you step in the room with it you have cancer...:-P
That's the exact same thing I'm thinking....
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Post by Nitrofox125 »

That's awesome.... though I agree with the above.... well hey, it's always worth a try... and how can it put out fires yet at the same time not get a book wet? It seems like both of these depend on the same property of water... though thinking about it I guess not.

[edit] A quote from the article...
There was a substance that had similar properties produced in the past, but that fire suppression liquid was damaging the ozone layer.
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all it needs to do is stop the oxygen from feuling the fire
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i guess it could replace halon or helon (whatever spelling) systems.

those always freaked me out, i think it was the gas masks that are skattered around "so you don't die".
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Halon, is the spelling your looking for, and yes you do need a mask when your around Halon, it is a Oxygen deprivant, if you inhale too much Halon you coat your lungs with it, and it will eventually asphixiate <--(however you spell that) your body
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Post by Kyouryuu »

Paraphrased from Slashdot:
"Forget dry water! What we need is non-burning fires!"

Anyhow, a pretty neat substance. For the record, Tyco is responsible for deploying this as a fire retardant method. The actual substance is manufacturered by your Post-It Note fiends over at 3M. :D
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That's pretty neato
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Post by Sage »

I wonder if they could use this stuff to cool computers. You know, just make it really cold.
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Post by roid »

possibly. considering it evaporates so easily it would be good for a contained evaporative cooling system.

you could submerge the whole PC in it like that guy did with mineral oil. i imaging you'd be topping it up a lot though, with such a high vapour pressure and all some is BOUND to leak out gradually in any do-it-yourself job.
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Post by woodchip »

What we need is non-burning fires
We have it...it's called rust :)
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And you can drink it without urinating.
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heh, ill pass on that experiment
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Post by Sage »

I wonders if it would make good lube.... :?
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Post by roid »

hell no, it'd be cold as.
cold lube is horrible

uh... i mean...

argh
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