{"id":183,"date":"2004-04-16T12:33:52","date_gmt":"2004-04-16T19:33:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/archives\/183"},"modified":"2004-04-16T12:33:52","modified_gmt":"2004-04-16T19:33:52","slug":"when-water-isnt-wet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/archives\/183","title":{"rendered":"When Water Isn&#8217;t Wet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is absolutely fascinating:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/abclocal.go.com\/wpvi\/news\/04132004_bb_sapphire.html#\">During Tuesday&#8217;s Good Morning America<\/a>, a representative of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tyco.com\/tyco\/press_release_detail.asp?prid=718\">Tyco Fire and Security<\/a> displayed the amazing properties of the chemical that&#8217;s called &#8220;Sapphire.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The chemical has all the firefighting properties of water, yet it will not cause the damage to items that is usually associated with water. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> Tha material is god, obviously for libraries and museums, but the business applications are there as well. Think about the damage done when a sprinkler system leaks, or malfunctions, which could be avoided with the use of non-wet water.<\/p>\n<p>It reminds me of the breathable water that I saw a few years ago, that applications for helping <a href=\"http:\/\/content.nejm.org\/cgi\/content\/short\/335\/11\/761\">premature infants with repiratory problems<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Science continues to amaze me.<br \/>\n(via <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.mitchwagner.com\/\">Monkeys In My Pants<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is absolutely fascinating: During Tuesday&#8217;s Good Morning America, a representative of Tyco Fire and Security displayed the amazing properties of the chemical that&#8217;s called &#8220;Sapphire.&#8221; The chemical has all the firefighting properties of water, yet it will not cause the damage to items that is usually associated with water. Tha material is god, obviously [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science-health-nature"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pefxA-2X","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}