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Published online 12 May 2008 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news.2008.817
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The hot new nanotech: testing chillies
Nanotubes could give cooks a cheap device to rate their chillies.
How hot is hot? When it comes to chilli peppers, the answer tends to be subjective — even official hotness ratings are based on the reliability of human testers or expensive high-tech machines. But now nanotubes may provide an objective, and cheap, check on how hot that sauce you’re ladling onto your kebab is.
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- 14 May, 2008
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