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Strange that Nuvilex has no booth reserved (so far) at at the ASCO conference at end of this month.
Happy to say I bailed at .18 yesterday. A good hunch for once.
Still great technology though.
This possibility is making my head spin.
Would metallic diamond, once produced, be stable at normal temps and pressure? (I have no clue what it would be good for, or if it even has general properties like 'other' metals.)
What if...IF...Snaper has produced a multi-carat crystal of metallic diamond? Something he can hold up with his thumb and forefinger for the cameras in a press conference?
Never mind "front page"! How about making the "A-roll" on CNN and FOX? (LT: "The universe has to get ready for the new product." Seems to me only a thing on the scale of metallic diamond would justify such bloviations.)
Metallic diamond is a long-shot candidate. But I'm doubtful of something new with graphene. Everyone and their brother with a garage or basement lab is playing around with graphene.
Just a hunch.
That abstract was from Libby's 1963 article.
This is from a 1980 paper by Francis P. Bundy:
"It is well known that Ge and Si go into metallic forms at high pressures. Diamond carbon would be expected to do likewise at sufficiently high pressures
[Libby, 1963].
"Some early shock compression data by Alder and Christian [1961], a 'Jamieson criterion' [Jamieson, 1963], and an extension of the locus of the 'diamond cubic'/metal/liquid triple points of Sn, Ge, and Si by Bundy [1964] suggested that the carbon diamond/metal/liquid triple point might be in the vicinity of 500 kbar, 2800K. Van Vechten [1973], on the basis of ionicity theory for group IV and III-V compounds, estimated that the triple point would be at about 1200 kbar, 3100K and that at room temperature some 1700 kbar would be required to force diamond into a metallic state.
"There have been claims by Soviet [Vereshchagin et al, 1972] and by Japanese [Kawai, 1976] workers of observing such a transformation in their ultrahigh-pressure experiments, but the majority of scientists who are experienced in the use of such ultrahigh-pressure equipment are not convinced of the validity of the experiments.
"Probably the closest approach to this transition in reliable apparatus was by Mao and Bell [1978] with a 'diamond squeezer' apparatus of special geometry and gasketing. They reached a maximum face pressure of 1700 kbar with one diamond suffering plastic deformation and temporary discoloration while under pressure. It is barely possible that the discoloration may have been the beginning of a transition to a metallic phase."
Perhaps Mr. Snaper has finally trapped this long-speculated mineralogical unicorn?
http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1963PhRv..130..548L
whut the hale?...
omg!
That's my name too!
Whenever we go out,
The people always shout
Hey, John Jacob Jingleheimerschmidt!
ta da da da da da da...!
This is however the first official PR I've seen mentioning combination chemo, though I'm sure that's been speculated upon in re CIAB.
Combination chemo usually also entails combination toxic effects. CIAB would definitely help in that regard.
Odd wording, though: "could mimic combination chemotherapy." It would not be a "mimic". It would be combination chemo.
So I take it that a good majority of the float is owned by more-or-less active members of iHub?
relatively low volume so far. no mad rush for the exits. (knock on wood)
Hmmm. It's called a "product", not a "discovery".
So I guess exotic anti-gravity crystals are out, unless he means "product" in the chemical-reaction sense.
On the other hand, why would LT lie, or otherwise wildly exaggerate?
If this 'front page' development turns out instead to be minor league scores in the sports section, LT will catch serious hell here.
And this is a penny stock, probably way outside the price range that Bulkowski usually applies his research.
According to Thomas Bulkowski:
"Any pair of candlesticks qualify as tweezer tops providing they have the same high price and appear in an upward price trend. The belief behind the candle pattern is that the twin high price marks overhead resistance.
"But the resistance is weak, and price closes above the pattern 56% of the time, based on the 20,000 tweezer tops patterns that I studied.
"Only 65% of the candles meet their price targets in a bull market after an upward breakout (and that is the best showing of the four combinations of bull/bear market and up/down breakouts). The target is the candle's height projected upward from the top of the candle.
"That comparitively poor performance (best would be a hit rate of over 90%) suggests that the price trend after the breakout is weak. In fact, the best average move over a 10-day spread is a drop of 3.21%, and that happens after a downward breakout in a bear market."
But we do have a bearish engulfing here too with NVLX, which is a fairly reliable reversal indicator, though bearish-engulfing reversals tend to be short-lived. Good upward breakouts out of bearish engulfings do happen, and have been quantified.
That vexes me, this "front page" news. Front-page of what? New York Times? Wall Street Journal? Journal of Applied Crystallography?...
What could it possibly be?
A new allotrope of carbon never seen before?
A large pure synthetic diamond of unprecedented size, color or some other trait?
The highest man-made lab pressure reading?
Word of buy-out interest from some world-reknown corporation?...
Bets, gentlemen?
20,810 shares here fwiw
Or maybe they've converted unobtainium into obtainium.
I hope it isn't something as "revolutionary" as Dean Kaman's Segway.
I noticed your leafage... watching nvlx?
If you are at liberty to say, is there any one specific thing that will catalyze (or has catalyzed) his decision?
There is that planned move to Vegas. When and how long, I wonder?
I bought another 4k shares. haw man!
well dang. didn't know pancreatic cancer was an 'orphan disease'.
huh.
The prospect of making large high-quality diamonds cheaply in a fraction of a fraction of a second and in volume is what excites me. I think most of these other allotropes are chance by-products.
Graphite in fact was first synthesized in the late 1800's.
Many methods for making graphene (the base component of graphite) have been developed. You can make it yourself with a chunk of pyrolitic graphite and some Scotch tape.
What everyone really wants to do is make high-purity graphene economically in the largest monolayer sheets possible. I can't imagine how the chaos inside a collapsing Magnatek vessel can be manipulated to create such (relatively) outsize pure sheets, but then I'm no engineer. Nanotubes might be an easier trick--graphene sheets rolled into tubes.
Buckminsterfullerenes ("buckyballs") are made by welders every day. Traces are spontaneously synthesized (among many other compounds) out of the available carbon caught up in the welding arc or out of the acetylene. Buckyballs have even been detected spectroscopically in far-off nebula.
But if Magnatek can be tweaked into churning out massive volumes of buckyballs, that would definitely be a boon. (And probably much easier than graphene.)
All that being said, large high-quality diamonds is the holy grail here. Anything else of value is gravy on the potatoes.
Orphan Drug status would be a nice foot in the door to quick acceptance by practitioners.
I'm a little puzzled, though. "Orphan drug" is usually reserved for drugs that are upside down in terms of cost-benefit. There are so few sufferers in the target market that cost of development outweighs potential future revenue and/or profit.
Orphan drug status helps pharmaceuticals drastically cut cost of development by opening up the market sooner. Sounds heartless, sure, but you can't stay a going concern by doing this for free.
I'm inclined to think that Ryan and Crabtree either have an "orphan disease" in mind, or plan to look for some that can benefit quickly from CIAB.
in Auckland.
Why do I keep running into the 'Snapper' spelling? It's 'Snaper', right?
Closed in the upper half of today's range, and traded entirely within the upper half of the previous day's range. Both good signs.
Looks like support at .07.
It has dipped below that a few times the past week or two but it doesn't stay there long.
As I thought. "Share structure" or "stock structure."
You can have a low float. Can you have a "low" share structure?
ok, I keep seeing "SS" bandied about recently about various stocks. precise meaning?
If they are read. They probably get all kinds of tips every day.
hehheh....did I say that I didn't?
Sure would be nice if this publication took a shine to CTDT:
http://www.konlin.com/
NVLX just rocketed on a blurb from them.
I don't think we can say the WSJ actually wrote that per se. Correct me if I am wrong, but I believe their website merely posted the original Forbes-hosted article among many others from some business newswire service. It never made it to the printed issue.
Sure didn't hurt, though.
I got spooked by that gravestone doji Monday and got out with a decent 40 percent profit. A mistake, but in other stocks I've lost all gains by not taking money off the table when it was there for the taking.
But NVLX I think has always been that penny rarity of a real deal. Back in at .1580.
GLTA
hmmm... buying on the Ask !
CTDT
Interesting chart, though a little squirrely intraday.
CTDT has developed and is perfecting a method to inexpensively produce large synthetic diamonds using collapsing magnetic fields.
CEO Alvin A.Snaper is a respected engineer and inventor, is credited with inventing or helping develop the IBM Selectric Type Ball, Tang, the NASA Apollo Photo-Pack and a coating process for Gillette razor blades, among many other things.
I made a good return on NVLX; I might jump back on to it. Meanwhile I've staked a position in CTDT.
patents by Alvin A. Snaper
impressive
http://patents.justia.com/inventor/alvin-a-snaper
"If we can do all that we have planned,
this next K-filing should be the one against which we are best able to show our progress against both where WE as a company have come from
and against the rest of the industry."
whut?