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Brian Elliott wrote:
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> Two of my favourite things were tins of sodium hydroxide and rolls of
> aluminium foil.
>
Ah, the classic Drano Bomb...
Sherry "I Was Nowhere Near The Lab" Shaw
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Orchid XP v7 wrote:
>> Have you seen the video of people dropping rubidium and caesium into
>> water? That won't be done in the classroom anytime soon.
>
> Braniac did it.
Surprise is no longer adequate, and I am forced to resort to astonishment.
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And lo on Tue, 23 Oct 2007 00:49:01 +0100, Sherry Shaw <ten### [at] aolcom>
did spake, saying:
> Tim Cook wrote:
>> Orchid XP v7 wrote:
>>> 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.)
>> Kids these days! At MY school, our science lab was equipped with
>> whatever brush fire happened to be nearby, a few pointed sticks, and
>> some random stones! Crazy teacher kept going on about turning lead
>> into gold.
>>
>
> At MY school, the periodic table looked like this:
>
> _______ _______ _______
> | | | | | |
> | D | | R | | Dg |
> | | | | | |
> | Dirt | | Rocks | | Dung |
> |_______| |_______| |_______|
>
>
> --Sherry "Twelve Miles Uphill In The Snow" Shaw
Woah blowing my mind here, when were 'dirt' and 'rocks' added?
--
Phil "Twelve Miles Uphill In The Snow Both Ways" Cook
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From: Brian Elliott
Subject: Re: Life Sucked at My School This Week
Date: 23 Oct 2007 05:42:04
Message: <471dc1ec@news.povray.org>
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"Sherry Shaw" <ten### [at] aolcom> wrote in message
news:471d36fd@news.povray.org...
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> At MY school, the periodic table looked like this:
> _______ _______ _______
> | | | | | |
> | D | | R | | Dg |
> | | | | | |
> | Dirt | | Rocks | | Dung |
> |_______| |_______| |_______|
I'm still trying to understand:
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| Wo |
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| Woman |
|_______|
Has a high affinity for Au - Gold.
Turns green when placed next to a better-looking specimen.
Must be handled with care -- can be explosive without warning.
:-P
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471dc1ec@news.povray.org...
> I'm still trying to understand:
> _______
> | |
> | Wo |
> | |
> | Woman |
> |_______|
>
> Has a high affinity for Au - Gold.
> Turns green when placed next to a better-looking specimen.
> Must be handled with care -- can be explosive without warning.
>
> :-P
LOL and don't ever think of measuring mass
Marc
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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.
--
Alain
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To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves
and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.
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From: Brian Elliott
Subject: Re: Life Sucked at My School This Week
Date: 24 Oct 2007 05:00:32
Message: <471f09b0@news.povray.org>
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"M_a_r_c" <jac### [at] wanadoofr> wrote in message
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> 471dc1ec@news.povray.org...
>> I'm still trying to understand:
>> _______
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>> | Wo |
>> | |
>> | Woman |
>> |_______|
>>
>> Has a high affinity for Au - Gold.
>> Turns green when placed next to a better-looking specimen.
>> Must be handled with care -- can be explosive without warning.
>>
>> :-P
>
> LOL and don't ever think of measuring mass
Ah yes, I forgot about that. It's mass changes, and as for measuring it --
see point 3.
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From: Brian Elliott
Subject: Re: Life Sucked at My School This Week
Date: 24 Oct 2007 05:02:38
Message: <471f0a2e@news.povray.org>
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"Alain" <ele### [at] netscapenet> wrote in message
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> 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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