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Elmnt80 posted:Why the gently caress does one person have that much mercury? Because mercury is basically the coolest thing
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TheChaosPath posted:Because mercury is basically the coolest thing I mean, I'm not disagreeing with you. Mercury is still something I wouldn't want a couple hundred pounds of sitting around.
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Sep 28, 2016 03:19
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Elmnt80 posted:Why the gently caress does one person have that much mercury? to flush it
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Sep 28, 2016 03:19
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He also distils it.
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Sep 28, 2016 03:22
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Elmnt80 posted:Why the gently caress does one person have that much mercury? Well, when you've got a mercury mine and an insatiable desire to smelt metals 
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Sep 28, 2016 03:22
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He ended the video mentioning hitting the hospital to test for mercury poisoning- what can they do to treat it aside from telling him to stop playing with turlets full of Hg?
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Sep 28, 2016 03:26
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Vice President Al GOR posted:He ended the video mentioning hitting the hospital to test for mercury poisoning- what can they do to treat it aside from telling him to stop playing with turlets full of Hg? Probably something to chelate it up and new kidneys after he trashes them.
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Sep 28, 2016 03:29
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Vice President Al GOR posted:He ended the video mentioning hitting the hospital to test for mercury poisoning- what can they do to treat it aside from telling him to stop playing with turlets full of Hg?
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Sep 28, 2016 03:28
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I was reading tellurium’s Wikipedia article a couple days ago and came across this fun fact:quote:Tellurium poisoning is particularly difficult to treat as many chelation agents used in the treatment of metal poisoning will increase the toxicity of tellurium. More mercury: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kv3XbKH3-lQ
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Sep 28, 2016 03:34
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Phanatic posted:That depends on the density of Uranus.  eh
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Sep 28, 2016 04:04
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Elmnt80 posted:Why the gently caress does one person have that much mercury?
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Sep 28, 2016 04:33
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Platystemon posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GvVaaZ21C44&t=534s Um is that or is that not a turd in the bowl at the linked timecode.
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Sep 28, 2016 05:21
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"mercury nitrate will absorb through the skin" *spills solution everywhere*
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Sep 28, 2016 05:28
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Data Graham posted:Um is that or is that not a turd in the bowl at the linked timecode. It's a bullet
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Sep 28, 2016 05:29
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What This Here Compound Needs Is Some Hydrogen Peroxide New "Things I Won't Work With" has been posted. quote:So I have to congratulate these folks; they’ve managed to combine two of my Things I Won’t Work With entries into the same flippin’ substance.
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Sep 28, 2016 06:30
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nmfree posted:What This Here Compound Needs Is Some Hydrogen Peroxide  That's... Do you think they just have bomb disposal suits on at all times?
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Sep 28, 2016 06:49
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nmfree posted:What This Here Compound Needs Is Some Hydrogen Peroxide I went to Shreeve's school. Shes got to be pushing the century mark by now. She was a professor at the school before the chemistry building had a woman's restroom. She pushes her students like Madam Curie did back in her day but except with fluorine/boom chemistry instead of radiation. There aren't many people I've met who I respect more.
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Sep 28, 2016 07:02
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Islam is the Lite Rock FM posted:I went to Shreeve's school. Shes got to be pushing the century mark by now. She was a professor at the school before the chemistry building had a woman's restroom. I would imagine the weekly cardio "wind sprints to the blast shield" definitely help keep you healthy.
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Base Emitter posted:"mercury nitrate will absorb through the skin" I think that was just washings from the flask, but yeah that was still pretty funny.
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Sep 28, 2016 12:16
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Cody is a legit honest-to-God mad scientist and I love him for it. Dude has panned for gold, extracted gold from electronics and random poo poo he bought on eBay, mined cinnabar and refined mercury from it, manufactured nitrates from piss and rotting leaves and used it to make gunpowder, and flushed a bullet down a goddamn toilet with mercury instead of water. You can lose hours on his channel. He's pretty much what you'd get if this thread was a person. e: He's also done some cool stuff that has a neat little bit of historical educational value in it, too, like processing dyer's woad in basically the way they would have done in antiquity, to dye a shirt blue, and the aforementioned gunpowder experiment. venus de lmao has a new favorite as of 13:08 on Sep 28, 2016 |
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Sep 28, 2016 12:59
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Islam is the Lite Rock FM posted:I went to Shreeve's school. Shes got to be pushing the century mark by now. She was a professor at the school before the chemistry building had a woman's restroom. This sounds like an exaggerat-- "B.A., Chemistry, University of Montana, 1953"
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ALL-PRO SEXMAN posted:This sounds like an exaggerat-- "B.A., Chemistry, University of Montana, 1953" She sounds like someone who won't take no for an answer when it comes to science. I like her already. Edit: Also holy poo poo yes that is some beautiful, dangerous chemistry in that article. I can't wait to see if Klapötke does anything interesting with it if his crazy rear end team hasn't already tried it. Kwyndig has a new favorite as of 16:55 on Sep 28, 2016 |
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Sep 28, 2016 16:51
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pretty FOOF: the first modern chelation med came from an attempted antidote for Lewisite, the chemical weapon meant to replace mustards, except it was too good of a vesicant and caused peoples skin to blister immediately instead of the next day like mustards. They made a bunch of Lewisite a couple miles from where I live, spilled a lot of it too, and 100 years later its a superfund site. It's all zoned for industrial, and every now and then someone digs into a pocket of arsenic so they just clean it up when it happens. It all goes into Lake Erie one way or another so who cares lol
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Syd Midnight posted:They made a bunch of Lewisite a couple miles from where I live, spilled a lot of it too, and 100 years later its a superfund site. It's all zoned for industrial, and every now and then someone digs into a pocket of arsenic so they just clean it up when it happens. It all goes into Lake Erie one way or another so who cares lol Japan left a number of depot/dumps behind in China as well, and occasionally someone digs into one and gets melted.
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nmfree posted:What This Here Compound Needs Is Some Hydrogen Peroxide quote:It says that “no unplanned detonations were encountered” during the work, which is a nice distinction. For most of us in the lab, every detonation has a spontaneous zing to it, a je ne sais quoi that you really just have to experience, because words are insufficient.
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Bertrand Hustle posted:Cody is a legit honest-to-God mad scientist and I love him for it. Dude has panned for gold, extracted gold from electronics and random poo poo he bought on eBay, mined cinnabar and refined mercury from it, manufactured nitrates from piss and rotting leaves and used it to make gunpowder, and flushed a bullet down a goddamn toilet with mercury instead of water. You can lose hours on his channel. He's pretty much what you'd get if this thread was a person. Just watched the "straight up refining mercury from rocks I mined off my land" video and I'm already getting vibes of "Would You Like To Buy A Kilo Of Isopropyl Bromide?" My wife overhead the video and she was wondering if it's even legal to do that. Guy said he owned the mineral rights to the land, which I'm guessing would be the major roadblock aside from any pollution created during the refining process.
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Phy posted:Just watched the "straight up refining mercury from rocks I mined off my land" video and I'm already getting vibes of "Would You Like To Buy A Kilo Of Isopropyl Bromide?" As long as you follow all the appropriate regulations about your waste products, it's (surprisingly) perfectly legal.
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Sep 28, 2016 18:32
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nmfree posted:What This Here Compound Needs Is Some Hydrogen Peroxide 
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It would probably be a really nerve-wracking field but there's something appealing to me about working with explosives chemistry. If only it all didn't go towards things to make people blow up better though :\
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Actually, blowing people up as a science has already reached an endpoint, barring the discovery of a more stable replacement for C4. Most of the high energy explosives work is done either just for the hell of it (pure science) or in hopes of making a better rocket fuel or for industrial use.
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On what authority or funding numbers or basis do you say that?
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Yeah, that doesn't make a whole lot of sense, because C4 itself is not the end-all and be-all of military explosives. If C4 was fine, the military wouldn't have gone on to develop Octol, HBX, etc. C4 is used in certain applications and not in others. And so far as rocket fuels go, if specific impulse is your concern you're not getting much better than hydrogen/oxygen.
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Oct 5, 2016 01:21
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klapotke himself been public about doing his work largely for military applications as well, f.ex
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Well color me surprised then.
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Phanatic posted:Yeah, that doesn't make a whole lot of sense, because C4 itself is not the end-all and be-all of military explosives. If C4 was fine, the military wouldn't have gone on to develop Octol, HBX, etc. C4 is used in certain applications and not in others. And so far as rocket fuels go, if specific impulse is your concern you're not getting much better than hydrogen/oxygen. Rocket fuel has plenty of concerns other than specific impulse. We don't use ion thrusters to take off from the ground, for example. Or if you're building a military rocket, you generally care quite a lot about being able to have the propellant just sitting in the rocket for years, while still being able to launch at a moment's notice. You can't do that with cryogenic fuels.
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David Borhani September 27, 2016 at 11:43 am Derek, why don’t you post chemical pictures anymore? Reply Derek Lowe in reply to David Borhani September 27, 2016 at 11:54 am No time on the train this morning – let me see if I can drop one in now that it’s lunchtime. . . Reply Mike in reply to David Borhani September 27, 2016 at 11:58 am His ChemDraw ran out of Ns. 
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Energy density, too. I imagine a more compact missile with similar performance is something nobody would turn down, as long as it's not too inconvenient or unsafe.
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Jabor posted:Rocket fuel has plenty of concerns other than specific impulse. We don't use ion thrusters to take off from the ground, for example. Sure, and we use kerosene/lox because hydrogen has really lovely density. And the military tested that mercury-propellant rocket because they were interested in improving density impulse, which is relevant for how many missiles you can fit into a magazine, etc. quote:Or if you're building a military rocket, you generally care quite a lot about being able to have the propellant just sitting in the rocket for years, while still being able to launch at a moment's notice. You can't do that with cryogenic fuels. Yeah, wasn't thinking about storables. I have the space thread on my brain.
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Abyssal Squid posted:Not bad, but now do it with a Jupiter rock.  Jupiter is a ball of gas, though. It doesn't have any rocks, or a surface rocks could go on.e: oh. After googling the name he's a nutter anyway. Can't expect a fundamentalist to be up on their astronomy...
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Hyperlynx posted:
we aren't sure of jupiter's interior composition at all it is entirely possible that somewhere in there are solid substances that could be referred to as jupiter rocks, protected from observation by pressures and forces unimaginable, but it seems to be too dense to be nothing but gas i would love to see a jupiter rock, is what i'm saying, and if he has the effectors on hand to make it happen then atelier morgan has a new favorite as of 01:07 on Oct 6, 2016 |
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