John Cuthber

If a metaphysicist comments in a forest, and nobody hears him, is that a step forward?

There are natural (and sometimes artificial ) sources of ammonia in water but ther's not much. "Water Natural levels in groundwaters are usually below 0.2 mg of ammonia per litre. Higher natural contents (up to 3 mg/litre) are found in strata rich in humic substances or iron or in forests (8). Surface waters may contain up to 12 mg/litre" from http://www.who.int/water_sanitation_health/dwq/ammonia.pdf And much, if not most of that ammonia is destroyed by chlorination before the water ends up in the supply. So your suggestion makes a little sense as saying that , because there may be traces of glycerine in water and there may be traces of nitrates, the explosions are due to nitroglycerine. On the other hand, hydrogen is a plausible product, especially if there's zinc present. So is methane in some circumstances, though not usually in treated water. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abbeystead_disaster

So?

You are aiming to make sodium salicylate. Off hand, I'm not sure what pH a solution of that should be. But, if I had some sodium salicylate I could dissolve it in water and measure the pH. Then I could aim for that pH when I mixed the solutions. Alternatively I could calculate that 138.12 grammes of the acid react with 39.9971 grammes of the hydroxide. Call it 3.5 to 1

You seem to be arguing against yourself. Chloramines are not as good at killing bugs as chlorine. They want to kill bugs. They add enough chlorine to destroy anything which reduces chlorine (like ammonia and also organic stuff) and leave a little extra chlorine . So, there's no ammonia (or organic stuff) left. In principle, all the ammonia is destroyed by the reaction you haven't cited 2 NH3 + 3 Cl2 --> 6 HCl + N2 Does this thread actually have a point? If so, please sum it up in a few lines so we can comment on it.

I'd make solutions of the two materials then mix them but, essentially, yes.

Any Cu++ species would, in the presence of metallic zinc, be reduced to the metal. So, yes, you would get a copper zinc couple. And that would probably generate hydrogen. Are you aware that they chlorinate water supplies and that destroys ammonia quite well? Most water supplies have no H2O2 in them.

That quote "The chlorine is absorbed and oily drops of the trichloride float on the surface of the solution" is pointless. Saying that NCl3 will coalesce on the surface is like saying that salt will fall out of a solution and settle at the bottom of the sea. It would if there were enough of it to make a saturated solution, but there's no way that will happen with a few ppm of Cl2. It's a ridiculous assertion.

I doubt that communism will take over in the States. But a dictatorship doesn't have to be Left wing. A state controlled by the super rich would be just as oppressive and, I think, far more likely given where you are starting from.

I always think that the people who say , "if you haven't done anything wrong, you don't have secrets" should be made to walk round naked and live in a glass walled house for a while until they learn that the desire for privacy isn't because you are doing anything wrong. There is also the question of whose "wrong" are we talking about here? If the government says "it is right to tap everyone's phone" and I say "no it's not" then, according to that government, I'm wrong- so they can use that to persecute me. The Communist party in the USSR was good at that sort of logic. They declared that communism was "obviously correct" so anyone who opposed it was mentally ill and would be sent to "mental hospitals" where they would be "cured" by doctors who, in turn, knew that opposing the system would get them transferred from being a doctor to being a "patient". It worked very well, and it looks like the US are planning to do the same thing. On a related note: http://rt.com/usa/us-police-harrassment-crime-308/

This copper(II) sulfate pentahydrate (33 mmol), ammonia water ( 29.00 mmol) and hydroxylammonium chloride ( 18 mmol) will give a solution/ suspension of CuCl in ammonia solution. I think the next steps are probably something like Cu+ catalysed decomposition of the diazonium ion to the phenyl cation. then coupling with the rest of the diazonium salt. (i'm guessing at a radical reaction here, given the paired oxidation states of Cu+ and Cu++)

This whole idea is essentially bollocks. The levels of free chlorine in water are typically about a part in a million. That could generate (at best) about a part in a million of nitrogen trichloride. At that level NCl3 is soluble in water and, obviously, not concentrated enough to cause an explosion. "So, a large water tank may provide a collection vessel for the formation of explosive NCl3 and its vapors. Some chemistry:" Yes, but not enough chemistry. You need to look up Raoult's law. There are, on the other hand, sensible explanations of the tank failures you cite. A zinc coated tank will generate hydrogen which is known to be explosively flammable when mixed with air. A cutting torch will, if not properly adjusted, give rise to fumes which are flammable. "What is interesting about the above is sufficient aeration could remove nearly all the suggested paths to either a flammable gas" Except that it would promote a lot of corrosion, which also makes tanks fail. Seriously, this whole idea of yours is rubbish.

It seems to me that the argument is that philosophy isn't crap because part of it went on to become physics. Well, I have news for you: alchemy is crap even though chemistry is useful; and theology is also part of philosophy. You can't sensibly judge the utility of something on the basis of what some small part of it went to become- in particular, you can't judge the rest of it by what some small part went on to do.

The fact that you are using 4 parameters to indicate a point strongly suggests that you can find more than 1 name for each point in space. But it's also consistent with the observation that you can't just use two parameters.

Thusly proceeding we could name every ray in the fan between A and B, the fan between B and C and the fan between C and A. And we have those directions named. Then someone more mathematically clever than I comes up with the extension of the convention to include the rays inside the triangle funnel. Yes, it's easy. You add another parameter. You can then use something like this http://www.chemix-chemistry-software.com/school/ternary-plot.html Incidentally, one of the numbers is redundant in your scheme 59a 1b Since the a and b have to add up to 60, the 1 (or, if you prefer, the 59) is not needed- what other value could it have?

"We are expanding through a Neon/Sodium universe," You might be, but the rest of us are not.

It was not the first language of the question writer either, since none of the answer sentences are is in correct English.

It looks very strange to me. Can you post a link to the patent?

Didn't CERN do that (in principle) a while ago when they raced light against some neutrinos and initially thought that the neutrinos had won. Actually, they timed neutrinos but, there was nothing to stop them using the same system to measure c.

Also, not much of it is actually a plasma.

OK, a sixth of a million F. Still not happening in a steel tube. BTW http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_precision

Since we are talking about counting spheres or blocks to get there, I'm pretty sure the infinities are all aleph null. The point remains that your "convention" limits resolution. "Intuitively the infinity of points of spaces are a thousand times bigger than the infinity of numbers from the line of numbers, but I doubt that intuition gives the correct answer when talking about infinities." I'm fairly sure it doesn't. You can imagine the infinite number of coaches, guests and rooms here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilbert's_paradox_of_the_Grand_Hotel#Infinitely_many_coaches_with_infinitely_many_guests_each as the x,y and z coordinates. there are just as many of them as there are numbers on a line

The plasma in a light bulb is created electrically. To make the same plasma by just heating the mercury would take something like 110,000 K. That's near enough to 200,000 F. Yes, I do mean a fifth of a million degrees Fahrenheit. So, you are not going to get a mercury plasma by heating it (and , actually, the pressure doesn't have much effect) Now, can you please answer the questions. What coil? How does a plasma create a "magnetic solenoid" "this provides thrust" How does it do that? What interaction is taking place?

OK, how do I know if 111222333 is 11,1222,333 or 111,222,333 or 11122,23,33? You can do it if you specify the number of digits in advance and pad the numbers with leading zeros but, if you say in advance how many digits you will use then you can't have arbitrary accuracy.

"purified water is known to induce diuresis and electrolyte loss." Drinking water makes you wee. Who would have thought it? But the important question is whether there's a difference between tap water and distilled water People get practically all their minerals + electrolytes from food, not from water.