15 May 2024

Corrodium

From Sci Fi / Sci Fact, 5:00 am on 15 May 2024
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Photo: No lo sé, CC BY-SA 4.0 , via Wikimedia Commons

In one episode of the TV cartoon series Ben 10, lead character Ben Tennyson battles mutant cows and discovers the source of the problem is a substance called Corrodium. 

Bill Jia, who studied chemistry in a MacDiarmid Institute research lab at the University of Auckland, discusses the chances of coming across something that could mutate living beings on the spot.

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