Today I Found Out
What Unobtainium really is (2016x39)
Air date: Feb 24, 2016
→Subscribe for new videos every day! https://www.youtube.com/user/TodayIFoundOut?sub_co→“unobtainium”. The unimaginative, seemingly lazy naming of this mysterious substance drew the ire and scorn of several critics, many of whom seemed blissfully unaware that aeronautical engineers and scientists have been talking about unobtainium since the 1950s. So what is unobtainium and who named it?
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http://www.metalsuppliersonline.com/research/Charts/periodic/113Unobtainium.asp
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http://www.visualthesaurus.com/cm/wordroutes/at-the-movies-airworld-unobtainium/
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