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Re:We Stood Up to a Patent Troll and Won by bloak on Tuesday November 05, 2019 @08:32AM (#21452193)
With gas chromatography and mass spectrometry, is it possible to have a secret formula these days?
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Re:We Stood Up to a Patent Troll and Won by SAI_Peregrinus on Tuesday November 05, 2019 @10:48AM (#21453398)
Yes, those tell you what the end product is, not the actual recipe to get that. And they tell you limited information, since they tend to decompose complex compounds that are unstable when vaporized.
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