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Old December 1st 03, 04:03 AM
Henry Spencer
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Default Prelude to the "grape drive"? [was: NASA Successfully Tests Ion Engine.]

In article FFyyb.24793$Bk1.5331@fed1read05,
\(formerly\) dlzc1.cox@net wrote:
I would wonder if you couldn't *add* a few electrons, to either C60, or
some long polymer chain.


Unfortunately, good negative-ion sources are even harder to build than
positive-ion sources.
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