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some fillings used in dentistry have mercury in them. i got 2. i cracked my tooth and the inside decayed a bit.

i would prefer the needle. i don't mind getting a jab but i got a thing about things other than my own fingers going up my nose. i also hate eyedrops.

i want that coat.

thats cos the earth is passing through a comets tail just now. we had a meteor shower around that time

no bother. try http://www.unc.edu/~rowlett/units/index.html if you need to know what any other units mean

a taser would make more sense on a plane seeing as bullets tend to leave holes in the pressurised cabin wall which is never a good idea at 10km up

nobody could know how many people in the world are gay. mostly because there are a lot of "closet" homosexuals who won't admit that they are gay. don't see what this has got to do with gay marriage though.

i take it you want to increase the resistance and OHMs isn't an acronym or anything. the answer is: resistor.

stop taking the medication(unless your life actually depends on it but since its only to stop acne then you should be fine if a little spotty) stop using hair straightners(i got curly hair, i like it fine). and wait for a couple of weeks.

to make an object invisible you would have to make photons hitting the object be re eimited on the same trajectory with the same energy. this would probably be done with an external device(coat, "stealth" generator a la C&C). this wouldn't change the chemical properties of the object.

looks prett cool.

i was meaning visually but yeah you would be able to touch it as well

nah just scottish

the ions he mentioned were think like HeH+ but there were 3 for He and a few more for Ne. I'm aware of the chemistry for Xe and Kr. i've seen pictures of solid XeF2, XeF4, XeF6 and XeO2. never seen the stuff in real life though. would be pretty cool. /me realises what a chemistry geek he is just seen woelens post: ahh i thought they might have been longer lived than that. oh well.

i'm quite happy walking around in shorts and t-shirts at the moment. its 7*C in scotland just now. if its above 5 its shorts and t-shirt weather

any pictures of that coat?

my inorganic chem lecturer informed us today that while no neutral compounds containing helium and neon have been discovered there are a few ionic compunds containing these elements. anybody know any of their chemistry? i assume that they are prety unstable

cells don't like to be too hot or too old because some of the reactions can't take place if enzymes are deformed by temperature or lack thereof. Example of cell communication: pituary gland(or whatever it is that controls growth) floods the body with a hormone that basically tells all the cells in the body to divide/grow. another gland sends out a hormone to stop the growth at the right time.

nanotubes can burn and no-one really knows what the properties will be like if you have say a wall made of nanotubes. we can mke guesses but it could be wrong.

i smell an experiment brewing... can't see any reason why it wouldn't work so give it a shot.

Agnostic: No offence meant in this, but, you seem to know more about the U.S. legal system than you do about science and hence are taking the POV of "I know the legal system like the back of my hand and science must be almost the same. so i know scientific method" well we know science like the backs of our hand and it isn't as similar as you appear to think.

i was thinking more along the lines of the puppeteers in ringworld and their kempler rossette

thats where us chemical engineers come in . just had a lecture on producing nanotubes. nothing about largescale though.

hmm i'll give it a shot as soon as i fix the window on the chamber(it gave at 23 barg)

a bar is 10^5 Pa absolute pressure a barg is 10^5 Pa gauge pressure. say a pressure gauge reads 20 barg this means the pressure is 20 bar above atmospheric pressure or 21 bar absolute pressure assuming atmospheric pressure that day is 1 bar. the barg is useful for working out specifications for equipment and machinery. edit: spelt gauge as guage D'OH!