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George Gobel’s LOX Site Pulled

By Red Wolf

9 July 2003

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In Science, Technology

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George Gobel, 1996 winner of the Ig Nobel prize for chemistry for lighting a barbecue with liquid oxygen, has had his extended home page pulled by Purdue University. The site has even been removed from Google’s cache. Fortunately, the Wayback Machine still has a copy in its archives

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