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17th August 2007, 1:47pm
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#61 | | tired and emotional Editor
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Originally Posted by Jushin Liger  Les, that's a bit of a shit collection so far.
I can get copper, lead, iron, tungsten, mercury and oxygen next door without even trying. Finger out man. | I can get loads of shit from work but that's kind of unethical.
Lead will be a piece of piss. Mercury, I'm just going to buy a thermometer and smash it. Can you store mercury in plastic, do you know? I can't think of any reason why not, just wanting to make sure.
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17th August 2007, 1:57pm
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#62 | | ShakingTheDisease SuperMod
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Originally Posted by LesMTS Magnesium!!!! YES!! | When I bought my bicycle I nearly bought a frame that was made of Magnesium, but chickened out due to fears of combusting on my way up the road.
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17th August 2007, 1:58pm
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#63 | | Punisher Moderator
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I don't see any reason why you can't store mercury in plastic.
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17th August 2007, 2:23pm
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#64 | | Communication Breakdown
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Originally Posted by LesMTS Can you store mercury in plastic, do you know? I can't think of any reason why not, just wanting to make sure. | Just make sure the container is securely sealed, so you don't go breathing in mercury vapours and I imagine that would be your only concern.
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17th August 2007, 3:15pm
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#65 | | tired and emotional Editor
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Originally Posted by Meatballs Just make sure the container is securely sealed, so you don't go breathing in mercury vapours and I imagine that would be your only concern. | Yeah, that's what I was thinking of. | |
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18th August 2007, 10:00pm
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#66 | | whispering eye Moderator
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Mad Hatter Les! | |
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18th August 2007, 11:09pm
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#67 | | ShakingTheDisease SuperMod
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The golden domes in the Kremlin had their gold affixed by a techique involving mercury I gather. Hunners of folk went mental in process, though how they noticed given the ever-present quantities of Russia's most plentiful element, Vo, I'm not sure.
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19th August 2007, 3:49am
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#68 | | Wallet Inspector
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Dose anyone know were you can see a video of francium reacting with acid? This has been a wet dream of mine since school.
P.s. I know a guy in the RAF that could possibly liberate a 20mm depleted uranium shell for you. | |
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19th August 2007, 6:44am
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#69 | | Dirk Gently
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Originally Posted by LesMTS Yeah, there will be plenty that are impossible to get and/or store. I'm fully accepting that.
I just bought some magnesium off e-bay. | You can just make some of the others from play dough.
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19th August 2007, 12:05pm
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#70 | | Communication Breakdown
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Originally Posted by NomadSoul Dose anyone know were you can see a video of francium reacting with acid? This has been a wet dream of mine since school.
P.s. I know a guy in the RAF that could possibly liberate a 20mm depleted uranium shell for you. |
Francium isn't stable enough to exist for more than a few hours, if I remember correctly. Plus it would be water you would want it to react with.
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19th August 2007, 12:25pm
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#71 | | Registered User
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Originally Posted by Meatballs Francium isn't stable enough to exist for more than a few hours, if I remember correctly. Plus it would be water you would want it to react with. |
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19th August 2007, 1:10pm
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#72 | | tired and emotional Editor
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Originally Posted by NomadSoul Dose anyone know were you can see a video of francium reacting with acid? This has been a wet dream of mine since school.
P.s. I know a guy in the RAF that could possibly liberate a 20mm depleted uranium shell for you. | You can but depleted Uranium quite easily and legally here. If you're in the USA that is, as they won't ship outside the states.
Francium is only created a few atoms at a time and it has a half life of minutes so I dare say such a video doesn't exist. The reaction would likely be unspectacular anyway (unless you had MASSES of the stuff), for reasons explained in the link I posted above. | |
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19th August 2007, 1:14pm
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#73 | | LAST SONG KILL AUDIENCE
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Originally Posted by LesMTS I can get loads of shit from work but that's kind of unethical.
Lead will be a piece of piss. Mercury, I'm just going to buy a thermometer and smash it. Can you store mercury in plastic, do you know? I can't think of any reason why not, just wanting to make sure.
I've ordered a pure oxygen canister from one of these barmy health sites. | Stealing from work is one of the most natural things in the western world. | |
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19th August 2007, 1:40pm
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#74 | | tired and emotional Editor
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Tied a ribbon of magnesium around the middle of an empty beer tin and left it on the embers of our campfire last night. It turned the beer tin (other than about an inch at the top and an inch at the bottom) into something resembling the thin, powdery ash that's left when you burn some paper.
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19th August 2007, 1:47pm
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#75 | | Dirk Gently
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I like fire too.
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