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2nd August 2007, 4:34pm
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#1 | | tired and emotional Editor
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| Building my own...
...periodic table. I want to start collecting elements.
Little vials, mounted on a rack (in order), with actual examples of each element in them. I've made a half-arsed start with some iron and some copper. Clearly a complete collection is entirely unrealistic but how far do you reckon I could feasibly get? | 
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2nd August 2007, 4:37pm
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#2 | | ...playground tactics...
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| Re: Building my own...
fairly far into it if you hasd some *ahem* help
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2nd August 2007, 4:37pm
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#3 | | Cap'n Cherry
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Even if you can get your hands on them, how would you store the radioactive ones? Also, aren't some of the most recent ones only developed in the lab for a few seconds? | |
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2nd August 2007, 4:39pm
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#4 | | Lady Of War
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| Re: Building my own...
at least oxygen will be easy to get 
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2nd August 2007, 4:40pm
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#5 | | tired and emotional Editor
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Originally Posted by bikuki  Even if you can get your hands on them, how would you store the radioactive ones? Also, aren't some of the most recent ones only developed in the lab for a few seconds? | 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. | |
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2nd August 2007, 4:42pm
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#6 | | Cap'n Cherry
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I'd be too tempted to just set fire to the magnesium, for shits and giggles. | |
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2nd August 2007, 4:45pm
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#7 | | Experimental stooge
Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Auld Reekie
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Get some tungsten out a lightbulb before supplies run out. | 
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2nd August 2007, 4:56pm
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#8 | | tired and emotional Editor
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Originally Posted by bikuki I'd be too tempted to just set fire to the magnesium, for shits and giggles. | Oh, there will be plenty of that going on when it arrives. I bought 25 grams, I only need a small sample for my collection. | |
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2nd August 2007, 5:12pm
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#9 | | Changed Man V4
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I went on Youtube to find people setting fire to magnesium, and ended up watching a swearing Glaswegian parrot
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2nd August 2007, 5:38pm
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#10 | | Aurė enteluva Gallery SuperMod
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Camping shop i go into, got a block of magnesium abut the size of a matchbox with a bit of firesteel down the side, you shave bits off the block thn strike it, or just lob the whole thng in the fire and bask in your own personal sun for the next 10 minutes | |
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2nd August 2007, 6:04pm
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#11 | | Hammer Smashed Face
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Be more fun if you use this periodic table. | |
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2nd August 2007, 6:21pm
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#12 | | sexy party
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Originally Posted by LesMTS Oh, there will be plenty of that going on when it arrives. I bought 25 grams, I only need a small sample for my collection. | i'd be too tempted to start destroying things with thermite reactions.
mmmm.
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2nd August 2007, 6:27pm
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#13 | | The man from Del Monte
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Iran can help you out with uranium
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2nd August 2007, 6:28pm
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#14 | | whispering eye Moderator
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DOnt you have to store ones like SOdium and things down that side of the table under things like Oil? Make friends with someone working in the Science/Chem lab at a school/nick things from your work  | |
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2nd August 2007, 6:41pm
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#15 | | Moderator Moderator
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I reckon you'll get a good forty or fifty elements in.
Good luck with it. | |
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