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From: "Robin van Spaandonk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, May 16, 2008 4:35 PM
Subject: Re: [Vo]:Biomimicry redux
In reply to Jones Beene's message of Fri, 16 May 2008 07:45:06 -0700 (PDT):
Hi,
[snip]
Now down to the nitty-gritty. Here is the recent
journal article (letter) of interest (from Taiwan):
http://pubs.acs.org/cgi-bin/abstract.cgi/orlef7/2007/9/i10/abs/ol070597o.html
"Hydrothermal Reactions from Sodium Hydrogen Carbonate
to Phenol" Tian, Yuan, et al.
Now- you tell me- am "I reading too much" into the
energy implication of this development ? Maybe.
[snip]
One is forced to wonder where all the Oxygen went. Without having read the
actual paper, my guess would be that it combined with the Fe to form Fe2O3
(rust).
After all, something had to reduce the CO2 in bicarbonate.
Regards,
Robin van Spaandonk
The shrub is a plant.
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