Just how do rocks become the objects familiar in our everyday lives? This question fascinated Thomas Thwaites so much, and it was an “extremely difficult” one. He had to make the mica, the plastic, everything. Making the metal was probably the hardest bit, says Thwaites. Learning how to make iron gave Thwaites “the first hint”, he says, “that, ‘OK, things are more difficult than I could have imagined’”.
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Oct 21, 2022
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