The Medway Handyman wrote:
Fleetie wrote:
The Medway Handyman wrote:
Pedt" "\"@ @\" wrote:
In message , at
20:10:36 on Tue, 1 Sep 2009, The Medway Handyman
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PeterC wrote:
On Mon, 31 Aug 2009 14:24:36 +0100, Tim Jackson wrote:
Can you not get fold-up suitcases?
Oh yes, same place as dehydrated water.
What was that fictional substance Issac Asimov described in a short
story that was so soluable it started to dissolve before water was
added?
Thiotimoline.

It was published in Astounding Science Fiction in 1948 with the
title "The Endochronic Properties of Resublimated Thiotimoline"
Thank you.
Indeed. I read it in an anthology of his short stories in my early
teens (growing up in Rochester, Medway Handyman!).

And you escaped?

Yeah, in 1989, for uni in Salford, but my Mum still lives in the house I
was born in and grew up in for my first 18 years.


Martin