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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.

Nice... And now on to the ice cream that doesn't melt

I've found some of that down in the freezer before Tri, I think it was 2 years old, nasty stuff.

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...

thats pretty cool "Dry" water

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...

That's the exact same thing I'm thinking....

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

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".

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

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.

That's pretty neato

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

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.

What we need is non-burning fires

We have it...it's called rust

And you can drink it without urinating.

heh, ill pass on that experiment

I wonders if it would make good lube....

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

uh... i mean...

argh