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| | Faster, Better, Cleaner?: Science News Online, Sept. 8, 2001 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07) |
 | | Ionic liquids, by comparison, are made of positively and negatively charged ions—much the way table salt, sodium chloride, contains crystals made of positive sodium ions and negative chlorine ions, not molecules. |
 | | Ionic liquids may be a hot topic for chemists now, but when they were first studied they were literally hotter. |
 | | The earliest ionic liquids in the literature were probably created unintentionally in the late 19th century, says John S. Wilkes, a chemist at the U.S. Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Colo. He's found references to a red oil, probably an ionic liquid, that appeared during certain reactions. |
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