On 11/18/05, Lan Barnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > <chuckle> I'm recalling a short story by IIRC Asimov in which a chemical > moiety was discovered that dissolved .3 sec _before_ water was added. > They ganged banks of them until they had a 24-hr predictive instrument.
Yes. Which he wrote while in school, studying to be a chemist. He was afraid that if his professors found out they would disapprove of his cavalier attitude towards chemistry and would make getting his Ph.D. difficult. As it turned out, they approved of his approach. -todd -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
