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  Re: Life Sucked at My School This Week  
From: Brian Elliott
Date: 24 Oct 2007 05:02:38
Message: <471f0a2e@news.povray.org>
"Alain" <ele### [at] netscapenet> wrote in message 
news:471e1557@news.povray.org...
> Orchid XP v7 nous apporta ses lumieres en ce 2007/10/22 15:22:
>> Alain wrote:
>>> Orchid XP v7 nous apporta ses lumieres en ce 2007/10/21 05:17:
>>
>>
>>>> Did you HAVE a fume hood?
>>>>
>>>> (At my school, our science lab was equiped with Bunsen burners, clamp 
>>>> stands and some glassare. And that's it.)
>>> Bunsen burners for high temperatures and alchool lamps to just warmup 
>>> things. Pegboards and peg clamps to hold up things. Some asbestos pads 
>>> and tiles to receive hot things. Glassware, rubber and glass tubes, some 
>>> we shaped ourself, rubber and cork stoppers, with and without holes in 
>>> them. Some electrical transformers, wires, resistors and other stuff. I 
>>> destroyed some transistors, like most others...
>>
>> Yeah, I think our matts might have been asbestos too...
> And there was those "heat moderators", some metal mesh with an asbestos 
> "spot" in the middle, often flaky...
> At least, it was asbest asbestos, not cryolite asbestos.

We (well, my mother) used to have them for our stove-top.  When one got 
flaky and fell apart, she'd buy another.

-- 
Brian


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