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3rd August 2007, 9:18am
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#31 | | Stagger like you mean it
Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Glasgow
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For Lead you could scrape the paint off some FisherPrice toys.
I'm very current events today
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3rd August 2007, 9:24am
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#32 | | 1 part bitch of eastwick
Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: Dr Elf
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3rd August 2007, 10:19am
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#33 | | The Regulator
Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: This house, this street, the fuckin 'Dingle
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Originally Posted by LesMTS 
Not that easy, to be honest. Oxygen will be a tough one.
In fact, I don't know how I'm going to get a pure sample of any of the gases.
Carbon, too, is more difficult than I thought. Pencil "lead" is not pure carbon.
I could get a diamond, I suppose.
| Try befriending someone at the nearest dive shop. They could hook you up with Oxygen and nitrogen, probably helium too. How pure is the O2 you get in oxygen bars?
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3rd August 2007, 10:31am
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#34 | | I hate your band SuperMod
Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Slacktivism
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Aye, I was just about to suggest an oxygen bar. There’s still one in Edinburgh, I think.
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3rd August 2007, 10:47am
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#35 | | tired and emotional Editor
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I've been reading up on the feasibility of the collection and it seems that it's entirely possible to get a good 90+ over a number of years. This guy has done it and gives loads of tips and advice. He even counts plutonium among his collection (albeit in a sample of rock containing a small amount of plutonium). | |
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3rd August 2007, 10:50am
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#36 | | In Shadows Growing Wings
Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Glasgow, West End
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I've got some H2O - it's yours for £20?
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3rd August 2007, 10:52am
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#37 | | tired and emotional Editor
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Originally Posted by Wreakin_Havok I've got some H2O - it's yours for £20? | It's not an element. Unless you're a pagan of some sort. | |
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3rd August 2007, 10:54am
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#38 | | In Shadows Growing Wings
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S'cool, *gets his coat* ...
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3rd August 2007, 6:55pm
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#39 | | tired and emotional Editor
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Got some bismuth. | |
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3rd August 2007, 7:33pm
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#40 | | whispering eye Moderator
Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Polmont
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I have Oxygen at my work OBV
Carbon should be easy...unless you want diamonds tooo
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7th August 2007, 8:26pm
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#41 | | tired and emotional Editor
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Still waiting on my magnesium, gold, titanium and bismuth from ebay. How long does it take?!?!
Been doing more research too. !!!!! | |
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7th August 2007, 8:55pm
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#42 | | tired and emotional Editor
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My first piece...  | |
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7th August 2007, 9:14pm
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#43 | | Athiest Otter
Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Glasgow-ish
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HA! Just reminded me I have a 'sample' to hand in to the doctor tomorow morning. Cheers Les 
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7th August 2007, 10:03pm
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#44 | | Hammer Smashed Face
Join Date: Apr 2001 Location: Airstrip One
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Let me know when you get the Caesium. | |
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7th August 2007, 10:15pm
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#45 | | tired and emotional Editor
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Originally Posted by Semprini Let me know when you get the Caesium. | Caesium, pound for pound, apparently, isn't as much fun as sodium when you throw it into water. Even though it's much more reactive you need an impossible-to-obtain amount of it to get a better explosion than sodium simply because the sodium is a lower atomic weight, so will contain more atoms, and will liberate more hydrogen (which is where the explosion's actually coming from).
"Brainiac", hugely disappointingly, found this out. So, rather than explain the real science, they faked their demonstration by using explosives. | |
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