"I love this stuff, " he says, fingering a foot-long sheet of Bubble Wrap, the universally known and beloved product made by his company.

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The result is a stamp of the posts that under a microscope looks like a sheet of bubble wrap, each covered with layers of electrolyte and the cobalt oxide anode.

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In formerly bubble economies, it is largely a balance-sheet recession.

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He chose this because the supernova that created it blew a giant bubble, known as the Vela nebula, out of the surrounding interstellar medium, and that bubble is big enough to stand in for the infinite sheet of gas.

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