WELL SAID! Jones Beene said [snip]
Randell Mills, in contrast - chose a commonly available form of nickel early on - Raney nickel - which since the 1920s was made in such a way (leaching out aluminum from an alloy) that it was already "nano" in an inverse sense . and therefore Mills had a form of "nanopowder" a decade ahead of the others [/snip]