Originally published at: Nxylon: wood so dark it absorbs 99% of light - Boing Boing
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Sounds like it would make a perfect hilt, should one find oneself allowed to retain one’s fuligin cloak; but forced to take up a specialist sword, light to raise, weighty to descend, after being cast out of the guild.
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cool!
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[Insert Anish Kapoor joke here]
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How do you pronounce this? Not to be a pedant but all I get is Nylon or cylon or Necylon. The last one sounds like a cat action when spoken out loud.
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Alternatively Patty Waters, (who died only recently):
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Damn, you were too fast.
I was going to go for “does Anish Kapoor hold the exclusive rights to build himself a house out of this?”
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Nightwood use by anyone other than fully accredited Guild members is a capital offence. Possess some at your peril.
Nyx, the goddess of night, and Xylon, Greek for wood
So, yeah, they absolutely should have called it ‘Nightwood’.
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I admit to cheesing out a bit since i couldn’t come up with an actual Anish Kapoor joke, so I had to settle for the meta reference.
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So wood burning with extra steps?
“I see you repainted your living room”
“Actually, my walls were carefully blasted with high-energy plasma by research scientists”
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It’s not University of Columbia, it’s the University of British Columbia in Vancouver BC.
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[Ed. note - paragraph 1 - should say University of British Columbia]
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“contributing a new approach to the search for the darkest materials on Earth.”
Those are kept under my mattress.
Also… A wood watch face? Is simple black paint not enough or is this a watch that runs off Unicorn pee and kept next to that Wu Tang album?
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Comment probably needs more @beschizza
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