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	Thiotimoline
		Thiotimoline is a fictitious chemical compound conceived by science fiction author Isaac Asimov and described in a spoof scientific paper entitled The Endochronic Properties of Resublimated Thiotimoline in 1948.
		In subsequent years Asimov wrote three sequels (The Micropsychiatric Applications of Thiotimoline, Thiotimoline and the Space Age and Thiotimoline to the Stars) though only the first of these matched the hoax article format of the original.
		In one of these he expounded a putative rationale for thiotimoline's behaviour: namely that the chemical bonds in the compound's structural formula were so starved of space that some were forced into the time dimension.
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	Thiotimoline Information
		In Asimov's writing, thiotimoline is notable for the fact that when it is mixed with water, the chemical dissolves before it contacts the water.
		This is explained by the fact that in the thiotimoline molecule, there is at least one carbon atom such that, while two of the carbon's four chemical bonds lie in normal space and time, one of the bonds projects into the future and another into the past.
		The story of the genesis of this spoof was one of Asimov's favourite personal anecdotes and he retold it a number of times in print.
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		Thiotimoline is a fictitious chemical compound conceived by science fiction author Isaac Asimov and described in a spoof scientific paper entitled The Endochronic Properties of Resublimated Thiotimoline in 1948.
		The story of the genesis of this hoax was one of Asimov's favourite personal anecdotes and he retold it a number of times in print.
		In subsequent years Asimov wrote three sequels (The Micropsychiatric Applications of Thiotimoline, Thiotimoline and the Space Age and Thiotimoline to the Stars) though only the first of these matched the hoax article format of the original.
	www.kids.net.au /encyclopedia-wiki/th/Thiotimoline (322 words)

	Asimov
		Thiotimoline has the property that it dissolves 1.12 seconds before the introduction of a solvent.
		When the thiotimoline dissolves, 1.12 seconds before the addition of water, the formerly opaque thiotimoline becomes transparent and the photoelectric cell is tripped.
		The thiotimoline in the second test tube will, of course, dissolve 2.24 seconds before water was added to the first tube.
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	Stereophile: Zen & The Art of D/A Conversion
		Thiotimoline #1 Editor: In response to JA's request for the name of Isaac Asimov's "mythical chemical substance" ("Zen and the Art of D/A Conversion," Vol.9 No.6), it is thiotimoline, a supposedly ultra-hydrophilic molecule.
		Thiotimoline #2 Editor: I am probably the 789th person to remind you that Dr. Asimov's endochronic substance was thiotimoline.
		The most common use of thiotimoline's endochronic properties is in the construction of "telechronic batteries." The principle behind the telechronic battery is easy to understand and home experimenters will have no trouble constructing their own.
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		Thiotimoline is a fictitious chemical compound conceived by science fiction author Isaac Asimov and first described in a spoof scientific paper entitled "The Endochronic Properties of Resublimated Thiotimoline" in 1948.
		Thiotimoline is derived from the bark of the shrub Rosacea Karlsbadensis rufo, and the thiotimoline molecule includes at least fourteen hydroxy groups, two amino groups, and one sulfonic acid group, and possibly one nitro compound group as well.
		Vernon\'s speech explains that thiotimoline was first mentioned in 1948 by a semi-mythical scientist named Azimuth or Asymptote, but that serious study of the compound didn\'t begin until the 21st century scientist Almirante worked out the theory of hypersteric hindrance.
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	Insider Audio, November 1996
		Asimov into the endochronic properties of resublimated thiotimoline (USP), a substance which dissolves 1.12 seconds prior to it being put into water.
		Thiotimoline has been used (mostly unsuccessfully) in military, space travel, and communications applications, but the AnTicipator is its only known application in the creative arts.
		Using "bucket brigade" devices made from real buckets – i.e., a tiny series of 16 water pails inside the unit attached to a small motorized cam, which continuously dumps the contents of each one into the next – pre-delays of up to 18 seconds can be produced.
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	Thiotimoline
		In Asimov's writing, thiotimoline is notable for the fact that when it is mixed with water, the chemical dissolves before it contacts the water.
		This is explained by the fact that in the thiotimoline molecule, there is at least one carbon atom such that, while two of the carbon's four chemical bonds lie in normal space and time, one of the bonds projects into the future and another into the past.
		The story of the genesis of this spoof was one of Asimov's favourite personal anecdotes and he retold it a number of times in print.
	encycl.opentopia.com /term/Thiotimoline (428 words)

	Thiotimoline at AllExperts
		In Asimov's writing, thiotimoline is notable for the fact that when it is mixed with water, the chemical dissolves before it contacts the water.
		This is explained by the fact that in the thiotimoline molecule, there is at least one carbon atom such that, while two of the carbon's four chemical bonds lie in normal space and time, one of the bonds projects into the future and another into the past.
		The story of the genesis of this spoof was one of Asimov's favourite personal anecdotes and he retold it a number of times in print.
	en.allexperts.com /e/t/th/thiotimoline.htm (524 words)

	The Scientist : Tour Through Library Databases Reveals A Funny Thing About Science
		Thiotimoline is a crystal with the unique property that it dissolves just before you add water to it.
		Isaac Asimov invented Thiotimoline for his first published short story, but only discovered its true power years later when defending his doctoral thesis.
		Asimov nearly panicked trying to decide whether the examiner understood that thiotimoline was a joke.
	www.the-scientist.com /article/display/16956 (1487 words)

	LISTSERV 14.4
		I seem to recall that it was in response to a question from the floor about the thiotimoline article, but anyway he talked about the article and made the statement about Campbell's "steel-trap mind" (it may have been that Campbell had "the original steel-trap mind").
		It would be unlikely that one of his examiners would have asked the question at the very beginning, since, so I am told, thesis examiners go for the fierce in their questions.
		Given this kind of questioning, it is unlikely that the examiners would have mentioned thiotimoline until the end of the session.
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	Sorcerer of the Week (Site not responding. Last check: )
		A: In March of 1948 Isaac Asimov's "The Endochronic Properties of Re-sublimated Thiotimoline", a parody of a scientific paper, was published in "Astounding".
		Mike Dolan said: "Thiotimoline" was a fictional element invented by Isaac Asimov for his pastiche on biochemistry papers, "The Endochronic Properties of Re-sublimated Thiotimoline" (I haven't checked my references to be sure this is exactly correct).
		The "endochronic" property of thiotimoline (pronounced "thigh-o-TIME-o-line") was its ability to dissolve in water a split-second BEFORE the water was added.
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		Thiotimoline is an odd molecule, the simplest example of a class of endochronic substances in which one chemical bond is so pressurized that it is distorted through the temporal dimension into the future.
		This warped bond is what gives thiotimoline the property, first described in 1948 by graduate student I. imuth, of dissolving 1.12 seconds before being added to water.
		Thiotimoline temporally "smears" the T3 molecule into the future, causing it to remain active in the body after it has already broken down.
	www.sciscoop.com /story/2004/4/1/24357/93543 (549 words)

	Review of "Thiotimoline and the Space Age"
		The future of the free world depends on thiotimoline research.
		This third "gag" article on thiotimoline is less stuffy in style than the first two ("The Endochronic Properties of Resublimated Thiotimoline" and "Micropsychiatric Applications of Thiotimoline", written in the form of a speech delivered at the 12th annual meeting of the American Chronochemical Society.
		The idea underlying the speech is that by piling up successive automatic thiotimoline cells, you can create a device which will dissolve an arbitrary time before water is added.
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	best FTL you ever knew - RPGnet Forums
		Thiotimoline being an imaginary substance that disolves before you add water to it.
		The initial substance is introduced in the article "The Endochronic properties of resublimated Thiotimoline" reprinted in The Early Asimov volume one.
		You activate Thiotimoline by being very certain that you are going to add water to it, but never actually doing so, which causes the Thiotimoline to travel to the future looking for water.
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	Re: Flying Mollusks (Site not responding. Last check: )
		OTOH another form of thiotimoline, one that extends not into time, but into other spatial dimensions, might be useful here.
		Muscles containing thiotimoline would be able to contract slightly before the nerve signal got there, which means a large competitive advantage.
		Their perception of time would be completely different; they could perceive an event from both sides as it were, or from the middle outwards.
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		Asri-unix.525 net.space utcsrgv!utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!hpvax!sri-unix!csin!cjh@CCA-UNIX Fri Jan 15 10:21:31 1982 Thiotimoline was indeed invented by Isaac Asimov.
		Another paper described side effects of thiotimoline, and "Thiotimoline to the Stars", written for the Campbell memorial anthology, proposed its use in space travel.
		Incidentally, ASF has had a number of strange things show up in it, since Campbell was given to a wide range of enthusiasms.
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	Isaac Asimov World - Science fiction
		These appear to have been done with the blessing, and often at the request of, Asimov's widow Janet Asimov.
		In 1948 he also wrote a spoof science article, "The Endochronic Properties of Resublimated Thiotimoline".
		At the time, Asimov was preparing for his own doctoral dissertation.
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	Zen & The Art of D/A Conversion
		Now how about that free year's subscription to Stereophile?---Will Chamness Ann Arbor, MI Thiotimoline #2 Editor: I am probably the 789th person to remind you that Dr. Asimov's endochronic substance was thiotimoline.
		The most common use of thiotimoline's endochronic properties is in the construction of "telechronic batteries."
		The principle behind the telechronic battery is easy to understand and home experimenters will have no trouble constructing their own.
	www.hit.bme.hu /~papay/edu/DSP/ZEN/DAC86.htm (2213 words)

	LISTSERV 14.4
		> * See "The endochronic properties of resublimated thiotimoline", a > breakthrough experiment by Isaac Asimov, published in ASF (John W. > Campbell, Jr., editor) around 1947 plus or minus a year.
		Also Asimov wrote the Thiotimoline article as a spoof on his own doctoral dissertation then in progress.
		He asked Campbell to publish it under a pseudonym, since he didn't want the embarrassment of having such a spoof floating around before his own thesis was accepted.
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	the Dave Davies Message Board
		He was actually quite afraid his stodgy professors would find out he'd poked fun at the Sacred Science of BioChemistry and boot him out of the programme, and they did ask him about the properties of Thiotimoline as the last question in his dissertation defense.
		Thiotimoline is the astonishing chemical that dissolves 1.12 seconds before it's added to water...
		Academics can be strange creatures, some of them...I once described Charlemagne as the Jethro Bodine of the Middle Ages, cos he was really, and actually one of my professors, a man known for the rod up his bottom having a rod up its bottom, actually thoughtfully had to agree with this assessment...
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	thiotimoline - Definitions from Dictionary.com
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	Reason Magazine - Hit & Run > Atlas Shrugging Watch
		It would need to be made out of Thiotimoline, rather than Reardon metal then.
		Ah, angela, I see that you are familiar with that seminal article, The Endochronic Properties of Resublimated Thiotimoline.
		Considering that the article was published over sixty years ago, you'd think there'd be more applications for thiotimoline.
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	Out of Cheese: June 09, 2003 Archives (Site not responding. Last check: )
		I'd really love a copy of Isaac Asimov's "The Endochronic Properties of Resublimated Thiotimoline".
		Actually, I'd like two copies -- one for me and one for a friend who does research and to whom I've complained about the absurd disregard for readable prose in research papers.
		I was checking my Sprint cell phone bill to make sure they didn't overcharge me yet again and noticed that I have unlimited night and weekend minutes.
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	Analog Discussion Board
		I should think the humor requirement is an almost given considering each article is tongue-in-cheek.
		OTOH, a seemingly straight-laced but off-the-wall report a la Asimov's thiotimoline would undoubtedly qualify.
		If my memory serves me correctly, the longest I can recall was two pages.
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	Owned By Seven!! > The Ephemeral Properties of Thiotimoline (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Endochronic Properties of Resublimated Thiotimoline in "The Early Asimov Volume 3"
		Thiotimoline To The Stars in "The John W. Campbell Memorial Anthology"
		Jun 22 2002, 08:33 AM Thiotimoline has always been one of my favorite Asimov subjects.
	www.asimovians.com /forum/lofiversion/index.php/t344.html (305 words)

	in illo tempore » Physicist to test for endochronic properties of entangled photons
		Going for a blast into the real past, If the experiment works, a signal could be received before it's sent.
		This phenomenon was first described in The Endochronic Properties of Resublimated Thiotimoline (1948), by I. Asimov, during his doctoral research.
		Thiotimoline is notable for the fact that when it is mixed with water, the chemical actually begins to break down before it contacts the water.
	inillotempore.com /blog/pivot/entry.php?id=629 (334 words)

	UFO Area: Time Travel: or the Possibility of Global Causality Violation (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The other solution is that the Universe has a law of Conservation of Reality that prevents global causality violation on any but a small scale.
		In Isaac Asimov's classic "The endochronic properties of resublimated thiotimoline" a new chemical powder dissolves BEFORE the water is added, acting on future knowledge.
		After lots of clever ideas are explored, then scientists try to fool the powder by not adding water after it dissolves.
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