• toynbee@lemmy.world
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    3 hours ago

    I remember a book featuring … Al the Gebra, I think? In it all tungsten in the world disappeared. One thing in the book that surprised young me was that X-ray machines stopped functioning.

    Apparently “tungsten has important niche roles in x-ray tubes.”

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      37 minutes ago

      A Gebra named Al, I think. I remember reading that in class in like eighth grade.

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        33 minutes ago

        Seems you’re right! I think I read it around the same age. Thank you for the reminder.