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NNadir

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4. That sounds like very fun work. I am merely a CS dilettante, but I did notice...
Sat Aug 27, 2016, 05:01 AM
Aug 2016

...that the upcoming Wolfram Technology Conference will have a section focusing on solid printing.

My kid and I have been playing with Mathematica/Wolfram Language stuff; it's amazing; it will go up to the internet and pull out physical constants if you just type the name.

Hopefully you didn't have to play around with too much beryllium. It's a wonderful element in many ways, but frankly, it's one with which I'd never want to play much, and I'm a guy who used to handle five liter flasks of pure liquefied phosgene.

I know lots of people who want to fill huge nuclear reactors with beryllium fluoride, but as much as I like nuclear reactors, I'm not one of them. There are better eutectics than Flibe.

It sounds, happily, that you were working with tiny amounts on circuit boards. (It's amazing how much toxic stuff is in circuit boards and other electronic devices like, for example, solar cells.)

Thanks for appreciating a science outside of your specialty. That's exactly what the world needs its scientists to do; but of course, much to our benefit, that's what many of us do.

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