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ameliaquining
20 days ago
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The most official water costs $120k a gallon
Yeah, but people find it perfectly intuitive that things like xenon are expensive because the material itself is rare; that kind of scarcity is a thing humans have dealt with since the Stone Age. Whereas this stuff is just water.
sandworm101
20 days ago
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Rarity isn't really an issue when buying laboratory quantities. Purity drives the price.
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