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Sometimes I think my professors don't put a lot of faith in our abilities. I was going through the notes for my materials class when I found a slide that says "The Greeks used the same word, krustallos, to refer to both water and quartz". The next slide says "Water and quartz are not the same thing". There is also a diagram illustrating the difference.

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also I refuse to tag this entry with "SCIENCE" because the ability to distinguish between a liquid that you drink and a hard mineral that you mine out of the ground isn't exactly Nature material

[edit] one quick thing. I was talking about textbooks with my materials/polymers professor and he told me Peter Atkins drives a Rolls. What the fuck?