• roguetrick@kbin.social
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    The base material is used in oral medication applications

    Calcium carbonate. The density for a calcium carbonate suspension in water is right on the money for what they’ve stated. They’re being so evasive because they haven’t patened it and likely can’t. They’re treating it like a trade secret because they can’t make it into IP.

    Edit: yep, they use it in oil drilling, so they can’t patent it https://glossary.slb.com/en/terms/c/calcium_carbonate

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      Patenting chalk water solution is like patenting milk.

      Oh look, I’ve made up a liquid consisting of suspended lipids, sugars, and proteins! Please detain these cows!

      These corporations would try to patent any molecular arrangement that contains two oxygen atoms and call it a day and they’d fight a plant for it.

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        2 oxygen atoms? Your product sounds awfully similar to my proprietary, patented, 1 oxygen, 2 hydrogen atoms compound.

        I hope you have a good lawyer.

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        Well, dehydrogen-oxide has been proven to, in large enough quantities, be deadly to humans.