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1 Oct 2024 15:22:46 EDT (-0400)
  Re: A practical matter  
From: Tom Austin
Date: 7 Apr 2008 09:22:29
Message: <47fa2015$1@news.povray.org>
Invisible wrote:
> scott wrote:
> 
>>> On the other hand... where would I buy thermite from?
>>
>> Why, you just make it yourself.  Isn't that the stuff where you get a 
>> load of aluminium filings and rust and then light it?  YOu need a 
>> strip of magnesium to light it though IIRC from school.
> 
> Well, I *do* have a large canister of laboritory-grade aluminium 
> powder... but how to get finely powdered rust? (The finer the powder, 
> the better it burns.) Not to mention magnesium ribbon - I used up my 
> last strip, oh, 12 years ago. :-(
> 

interesting considering the quote from another topic

Invisible also wrote:
 > >> I am the least masculine male I know of. Presumably because I dislike
 > >> what being male stands for - violence, selfishness and brute
 > >> strength.


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