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Weekly Science Video: Conan O’Brien on boron

Posted by Brad in Chemistry, Friday Science Video, Weekly Science Video on 13 February 2009

News came out at the beginning of February that researchers had found a new form of super-hard boron when the element is compressed by extremely high pressures. This is the fourth known stable form of boron.

If you read down to the bottom of that article you’ll find that the author originally got it wrong and reported that there were three stable forms of boron.

Conan O’Brien called him on it.

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