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mllaneza posted:I'm surrounded by azoles ! RIP you.
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http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-bristol-38991983quote:University buildings were evacuated when a student accidentally made the same highly explosive substance that was used in the Paris terror attacks.
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My Lovely Horse posted:http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-bristol-38991983 Did you know that terrorists chiefly consist of carbon and water? Makes you think.
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GMOs have the same CHEMICALS as TERRORISTS!! really makes u think.......
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My Lovely Horse posted:http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-bristol-38991983
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Wylie posted:Christ, what an azole I'd like to add you to my professional network on LinkedN.
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Buff Skeleton posted:I'd like to add you to my professional network on LinkedN.
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# ? Feb 16, 2017 20:38 |
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Derek Lowe already has a writeup:quote:How Not to Do It: TATP Buff Skeleton posted:I'd like to add you to my professional network on LinkedN.
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Buff Skeleton posted:I'd like to add you to my professional network on LinkedN. :
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Hello from BSS! I have what I hope is a reasonable science question to do with this page, where Iron Man is fighting an early arch-nemesis, Titanium Man: My question is, can someone please hold forth at length about the combustibility of titanium? I assume it does ignite above a certain temperature, similar to aluminum, and I also suspect that it oxidizes very violently. Is that true?. What would it take to extinguish? Does it manage to self-oxidize in water? EDIT: Thanks! Carrying that back. LordSaturn has a new favorite as of 04:16 on Feb 20, 2017 |
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Titanium can burn underwater by stripping the oxygen from water molecules. The normal way to extinguish metal fires is either to smother them (sand, chemical foam) or cool them (expanding CO2). It's not easy though.
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Hydrogen peroxide would royally gently caress over titanium man something fierce.
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# ? Feb 20, 2017 04:12 |
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Mustached Demon posted:Hydrogen peroxide would royally gently caress over titanium man something fierce. Or any halogenated organic compound, iirc.
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# ? Feb 20, 2017 05:17 |
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Titanium Man’s kryptonite is tap water.
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I thought the titanium in the SR71 could only be worked by special tools, otherwise the metal would corrode mid-flight and send everyone back to the ground prematurely. I want to say the tools had to be chromium?
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Apparently tools at the time were commonly cadmium plated, to prevent corrosion. Presumably they switched to stainless steel or something similar.
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Watermelon Daiquiri posted:GMOs have the same CHEMICALS as TERRORISTS!! GMOs have the same chemicals as non-GMOs, too! The conspiracy runs deep!
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# ? Feb 28, 2017 02:45 |
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GMO crops contain pieces of Hitler!
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# ? Feb 28, 2017 02:49 |
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Platystemon posted:GMO crops contain pieces of Hitler! Homeopathic levels of Hitler!
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The Lone Badger posted:Homeopathic levels of Hitler! So much Hitler power.
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The Lone Badger posted:Homeopathic levels of Hitler! Dear God, we are all lost. RUN YOU FOOLS!
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# ? Feb 28, 2017 04:10 |
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Things that go FOOF in the night: Homeopathic levels of Hitler
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CleverHans posted:Things that go FOOF in the night: Homeopathic levels of Hitler
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# ? Feb 28, 2017 05:58 |
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http://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2017/03/03/how-not-to-do-it-breaking-up-ammonium-nitrate New Derek Lowe piece, about BASF using a novel method of separating large hunks of solid ammonium nitrate
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`Nemesis posted:New Derek Lowe piece, about BASF using a novel method of separating large hunks of solid ammonium nitrate
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# ? Mar 3, 2017 21:52 |
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It's spelled Nobel.
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# ? Mar 3, 2017 21:55 |
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What's a 560 dead between friends anyway. Imagine the time they saved!
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# ? Mar 3, 2017 22:10 |
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Its always a good reminder that for every little bit of fancy pants research chemical that we like to fawn over, its commodity quantities of boring stuff that has the body count.
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zedprime posted:Its always a good reminder that for every little bit of fancy pants research chemical that we like to fawn over, its commodity quantities of boring stuff that has the body count. That's because people get complacent around large quantities of things.
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Kwyndig posted:That's because people get complacent around large quantities of things.
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# ? Mar 3, 2017 22:44 |
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“Novel” is really something I don’t like to hear applied to explosives. I’ll take the time‐tested ones, thanks.
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# ? Mar 4, 2017 03:33 |
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Mustached Demon posted:Hydrogen peroxide would royally gently caress over titanium man something fierce.
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zedprime posted:the chemical potential energy in a mountain of ammonium nitrate is a completely different magnitude of energy accessible in one event. Ammonium nitrate is pretty tame in the context of this thread, but the lack of energy is made up for by the fact that there's a lot of it around when it goes off. As Texas port cities go, I think Galveston has the better record -- at least there, they saw the hurricanes coming and had the chance to run the gently caress away before it got scoured down to bedrock (twice! That's why Houston is now the main port, at the end of a ridiculously expensive canal. Also, Houston is smart enough to tell ships full of ammonium nitrate to take that poo poo somewhere else, away from the oil refineries.) Speaking of relatively benign explosives in large amounts, we're coming up on the 80th anniversary of the third-worst disaster ( warning: a bunch of little kids died, so stop here if you're squeamish about that sort of thing ) to befall Texas (after the aforementioned Galveston hurricane of 1900 and Texas City all but being nuked) -- in 1937, the little town of New London, in the middle of the biggest oilfield ever discovered at the time, used their oil money to build a nice shiny new million-dollar school. But for some reason they cheaped out on heating the place, and just tapped into the oil company's waste gas line (this was before the oil companies realized they could sell it) instead of getting a proper installation. They also cheaped out on the plumber they hired to install the line, so it leaked. On March 18, literally ten minutes before school (and the PTA meeting in the gym) let out, the shop teacher flipped the switch on a power tool, causing a spark, which ignited the leaked gas in the basement/crawlspace. Official death toll was around 300, mostly children, but given the intensity of the explosion and the parents attending the PTA meeting, it's better than even odds that some entire families were vaporized, leaving nobody to report them missing. You know it's bad when Adolf Fuckin' Hitler sends his condolences.
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Delivery McGee posted:I think Galveston has the better record -- at least there, they saw the hurricanes coming and had the chance to run the gently caress away before it got scoured down to bedrock (twice! Galveston wishes it were built on bedrock. It’s nothing but mud for thousands of feet below the surface.
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Delivery McGee posted:
Ahaha holy poo poo. I knew about this tragedy, but I had no idea about this part.
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I honestly have no doubt it was genuine either. The New London school explosion is just that horrific.
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Hitler knew an opportunity for free goodwill when he saw one. See also: The fatal hike that became a Nazi propaganda coup
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Things that go FOOF in the night: Even Hitler sent his condolences
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Platystemon posted:Galveston wishes it were built on bedrock. Straight up? How do they build securely?
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VanSandman posted:Straight up? How do they build securely? Friction piles. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lxm5PgK3C80
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