http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/17/cubic-zirconia-used-to-make-fuel-cells-run-cooler-fool-neighbor/ Engadget Comments for Cubic zirconia used to make fuel cells run cooler, fool neighbors http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/17/cubic-zirconia-used-to-make-fuel-cells-run-cooler-fool-neighbor/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/17/cubic-zirconia-used-to-make-fuel-cells-run-cooler-fool-neighbor/Jul 17th 2007 4:47AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/17/cubic-zirconia-used-to-make-fuel-cells-run-cooler-fool-neighbor/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/17/cubic-zirconia-used-to-make-fuel-cells-run-cooler-fool-neighbor/
So that means that basically they made ions move...instead of ions.

Yippee for consumer ignorance!]]>Jul 17th 2007 5:19AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/17/cubic-zirconia-used-to-make-fuel-cells-run-cooler-fool-neighbor/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/17/cubic-zirconia-used-to-make-fuel-cells-run-cooler-fool-neighbor/Jul 17th 2007 5:45AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/17/cubic-zirconia-used-to-make-fuel-cells-run-cooler-fool-neighbor/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/17/cubic-zirconia-used-to-make-fuel-cells-run-cooler-fool-neighbor/
a proton is a POSITIVELY CHARGED HYDROGEN NUCLEUS.Man,please don't tell me i'm wrong about this.I thought I passed my Chemistry classes for a reason!lol]]>Jul 17th 2007 5:47AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/17/cubic-zirconia-used-to-make-fuel-cells-run-cooler-fool-neighbor/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/17/cubic-zirconia-used-to-make-fuel-cells-run-cooler-fool-neighbor/
Look up any place on the internet,they'll all tell you that an H+ ion is a proton

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by your reasoning, you could also say:
a banana is a yellow fruit
so hence fruits = bananas

get what i mean?

a proton is arguably a specific one of many ions. that doesn't however make all ions protons.]]>Jul 17th 2007 6:14AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/17/cubic-zirconia-used-to-make-fuel-cells-run-cooler-fool-neighbor/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/17/cubic-zirconia-used-to-make-fuel-cells-run-cooler-fool-neighbor/Jul 17th 2007 5:24AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/17/cubic-zirconia-used-to-make-fuel-cells-run-cooler-fool-neighbor/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/17/cubic-zirconia-used-to-make-fuel-cells-run-cooler-fool-neighbor/Jul 17th 2007 5:50AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/17/cubic-zirconia-used-to-make-fuel-cells-run-cooler-fool-neighbor/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/17/cubic-zirconia-used-to-make-fuel-cells-run-cooler-fool-neighbor/Jul 17th 2007 6:13AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/17/cubic-zirconia-used-to-make-fuel-cells-run-cooler-fool-neighbor/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/17/cubic-zirconia-used-to-make-fuel-cells-run-cooler-fool-neighbor/The reasoning behind why this should work is because of how conduction take places (read as takes place) in cubic zirconia. Normal conduction in say a copper wire works through an electron transfer. A single electron is introduced at one end of the wire, which results in a Cu- ion at that end of the wire. Then, an electron is passed from the Cu- ion to its neighboring Cu atom. This process repeats until an electron exits the other end of the wire. This article suggests that cubic zirconia does not work this way. Now, I have never heard of protonic movement before today, but it sounds to me like the same process as above only an H+ ion is passed from atom to atom. Although, that is what it sounds like, I wouldn't expect a positively charged ion to behave in that fashion. Normally, a positively charged ion would attempt to steal an electron from another atom rather than give up a proton. Stealing an electron is much easier since they are moving around outside the nucleus which makes them more accessable.]]>Jul 17th 2007 9:22AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/17/cubic-zirconia-used-to-make-fuel-cells-run-cooler-fool-neighbor/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/17/cubic-zirconia-used-to-make-fuel-cells-run-cooler-fool-neighbor/
It would still be bullshit but man it'd SHINE!]]>Jul 17th 2007 7:07AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/17/cubic-zirconia-used-to-make-fuel-cells-run-cooler-fool-neighbor/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/17/cubic-zirconia-used-to-make-fuel-cells-run-cooler-fool-neighbor/Jul 17th 2007 8:01AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/17/cubic-zirconia-used-to-make-fuel-cells-run-cooler-fool-neighbor/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/17/cubic-zirconia-used-to-make-fuel-cells-run-cooler-fool-neighbor/Jul 17th 2007 9:00AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/17/cubic-zirconia-used-to-make-fuel-cells-run-cooler-fool-neighbor/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/17/cubic-zirconia-used-to-make-fuel-cells-run-cooler-fool-neighbor/Jul 17th 2007 9:01AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/17/cubic-zirconia-used-to-make-fuel-cells-run-cooler-fool-neighbor/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/17/cubic-zirconia-used-to-make-fuel-cells-run-cooler-fool-neighbor/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuel_cell#Types_of_fuel_cells]]>Jul 17th 2007 9:20AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/17/cubic-zirconia-used-to-make-fuel-cells-run-cooler-fool-neighbor/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/17/cubic-zirconia-used-to-make-fuel-cells-run-cooler-fool-neighbor/Jul 17th 2007 9:38AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/17/cubic-zirconia-used-to-make-fuel-cells-run-cooler-fool-neighbor/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/17/cubic-zirconia-used-to-make-fuel-cells-run-cooler-fool-neighbor/
The Cullinan II however was described thus: 'Take four strong men, each with small rocks. Have them each throw their rocks in each of the four directions as far as they can throw them. Then have a fifth man throw a small rock directly up as high as high as he can. Fill that area with precious gems and you have an idea of the value of the Cullinan II."

So, no matter how many fuel cells they use CZs in, their value is never going to be greater than, say, a 128 meg flash drive, if you want to talk "flashy."]]>Jul 17th 2007 11:42AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/17/cubic-zirconia-used-to-make-fuel-cells-run-cooler-fool-neighbor/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/17/cubic-zirconia-used-to-make-fuel-cells-run-cooler-fool-neighbor/Jul 17th 2007 7:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/17/cubic-zirconia-used-to-make-fuel-cells-run-cooler-fool-neighbor/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/17/cubic-zirconia-used-to-make-fuel-cells-run-cooler-fool-neighbor/
You misunderstood me. By paste, I meant a term in the gem trade for costume jewelry. Most "paste" is actually cut glass. And by "like paste," I meant of little value. Sorry to be unclear.

As for the hardness of CZ, it's 8.5 on the MOHS scale, which means about 300 times harder than talc (which is 1 on the scale). Diamonds are 10 on the Mohs scale, which in fact is 1500 times harder than talc, and the hardest natural substance.

Now, aggregated diamond nanorods are higher than 10 on the scale, but such allotropes of carbon are not suitable for gems. :-D]]>Jul 18th 2007 10:19AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/17/cubic-zirconia-used-to-make-fuel-cells-run-cooler-fool-neighbor/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/17/cubic-zirconia-used-to-make-fuel-cells-run-cooler-fool-neighbor/Jul 17th 2007 11:37AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/17/cubic-zirconia-used-to-make-fuel-cells-run-cooler-fool-neighbor/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/17/cubic-zirconia-used-to-make-fuel-cells-run-cooler-fool-neighbor/Jul 17th 2007 12:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/17/cubic-zirconia-used-to-make-fuel-cells-run-cooler-fool-neighbor/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/17/cubic-zirconia-used-to-make-fuel-cells-run-cooler-fool-neighbor/
Wait, what?]]>Jul 17th 2007 12:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/17/cubic-zirconia-used-to-make-fuel-cells-run-cooler-fool-neighbor/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/17/cubic-zirconia-used-to-make-fuel-cells-run-cooler-fool-neighbor/
Absolute temperatures are your friends.]]>Jul 17th 2007 1:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/17/cubic-zirconia-used-to-make-fuel-cells-run-cooler-fool-neighbor/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/17/cubic-zirconia-used-to-make-fuel-cells-run-cooler-fool-neighbor/Jul 17th 2007 3:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/17/cubic-zirconia-used-to-make-fuel-cells-run-cooler-fool-neighbor/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/17/cubic-zirconia-used-to-make-fuel-cells-run-cooler-fool-neighbor/So basically, they're causing nuclear fission to cool. Great, that's nothing new.]]>Jul 17th 2007 2:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/17/cubic-zirconia-used-to-make-fuel-cells-run-cooler-fool-neighbor/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/17/cubic-zirconia-used-to-make-fuel-cells-run-cooler-fool-neighbor/Jul 17th 2007 3:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/17/cubic-zirconia-used-to-make-fuel-cells-run-cooler-fool-neighbor/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/17/cubic-zirconia-used-to-make-fuel-cells-run-cooler-fool-neighbor/Jul 17th 2007 7:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/17/cubic-zirconia-used-to-make-fuel-cells-run-cooler-fool-neighbor/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/17/cubic-zirconia-used-to-make-fuel-cells-run-cooler-fool-neighbor/Jul 17th 2007 8:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/17/cubic-zirconia-used-to-make-fuel-cells-run-cooler-fool-neighbor/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/17/cubic-zirconia-used-to-make-fuel-cells-run-cooler-fool-neighbor/
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