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david hahn made a solution of conc nitric and sulfuric acids, added pitchblende and could not dissolve any urananite ore. in the end, nucleosynthesized uranium 233 from thorium 232, which he thermited from the dioxide. i never understood why he did a thermite; he had to go through the trouble of shoplifting and breaking open hundreds of lithium batteries to get enough lithium to reduce the thorium dioxide. if i were him i would just use electrolysis. so much easier/cheaper that way.

define "free". the dead aren't free. the "freed" are busy hoping they dont get blown up anytime soon. the "freed" are pissed off at our occupation. bush is a slacker; look at his national guard records...wait, he refuses to release almost all of them. apparently he has things to hide. i'd actually say that arafat is less dangerous to the world than bush, and as for kerry, you actually didnt justify your statement at all. if you want to talk about appearance, bush is a monkey and kerry is horse-faced. if you want to talk about "flip-flopping", why dont you just check out bush's "justifications" (or rather attempts at justifying) for war in iraq?

potassium nitrate is fun stuff. you can use it for it's oxidizing properties...makes good flames when mixed and ignited with organics, can be used as a propellant. also, of course you can make nitric, but you have to be very careful when doing so, as it evolves hydrogen nitrate gas.

especially the nitrogen trihalides. ng can be stablized easily, while the trihalides will oxidize unless you keep them really, really cold and do not do so much as move them slightly. contact with organics or metals will explode them. speaking of nitrogen trihalides...im going to be making a very small amount the triiodide once i extract iodine from my seaweed ashes. (im thinking about 2mL of it).

THAT'S whats so scary about him the un acts more in the will of the world than the us. we have a responsibility to struggle for a better world

sulfuric's density is 1.8g/cc

well, at least nitric does

i believe pure nitric is .7g/cc

if you want sodium metal, perform electrolysis on the fused hydroxide

and because the fluoride anion will replace most other anions in salts that have relatively active cations

just a bit hung up on justification for iraq? what about the korea thing? bush let korea get nukes and he didn't really thwart kerry's statement. and what about homeland security? bush downplayed kerry's ideas for inspections of shipments, guarding chemical storage facilities etc. what were these points that bush made that kerry couldn't refute? really, we need deeper coverage than that

actually, hydrofluoric acid isn't so strong of an acid. if you reacted the two, you'd end up with cesium fluoride and water vapor mostly. the reaction is quite vigorous

ah, and here is a source: http://www.firstworldwar.com/weaponry/gas.htm

actually, chemical weapons in the first world war were quite ineffective. they killed very few and maimed a few more. their only effective use was to make people run from their trenches

there are other ways... this is more of a physics question tho.

fractional distillation:)

the term "chemical weapon" is a terrible term conceived by idiots who know little to nothing about chemistry. people go down the list: lewisite, xylyl bromide, novichok agents, vx, sarin, mustard gas, chlorine etc and call them all "chemical weapons". well, they are all chemicals and they can all be used as weapons. at the same time, they dont all have the same effects. an example would be chlorine. it smells bloody terrible. in fact, it smells so bad that if one were to be exposed to it, they would know to leave before concentrations got anywhere remotely close to lethal. chlorine is a respiratory irritant and attacks the mucus membrane in the esophagus and the lungs, causing people to drown in their own mucus and blood. of course, this is only if they have been exposed to lethal doses. usually, it just causes a little mucus to be coughed up. i have made chlorine gas before. i have breathed it in on accident. i coughed a few times and was fine about say 15 seconds later.as and i had a good deep breath of it too. lewisite and mustard gas are similar compounds. xylyl bromide is annoying but just a tearing agent. you will cry and not really feel hurt. now, if we start talking about sarin, vx and novichok agents, we are getting into organophosphates, which can be a number of different compounds that contain a phosphate group usually with fluorine attached. these are nerve agents and they are no good. depending on the concentration of people in an area and various other factors these can be dangerous. in tokyo, 400 people were killed in a subway by a sarin attack many years ago. this was a subway; underground, with many people. it only killed 400 of them which isn't as bad as many like to pretend sarin is. as far as biological weapons go, they can be used in many ways, some more effective than others. it is all relative to many variables, so you can't just say that any attack will kill hundreds of thousands of people. also, i'd like to add that in our major cities, take washington dc for example, trains go rumbling by with pressurized liquid boron trifluoride in them every day. all it takes is a coordinated terrorist or, hell, a stray bullet from a shooting (you know, the lack of a ban on automatic weapons makes it easier now) to release enough boron trifluoride to kill the entire city (or would it? maybe theyre just tyring to scare you again). also, these chemicals are stored just outside of huge cities, with almost no security (refer to 60 minutes).

today, actually, but a better question to ask would be "when was the last time you bought something that hadn't come through hong kong?" china probably wont back north korea in a war, even though they have always defended korea like a brother (noryang point ring a bell? how about the korean war?). still, china could easily make the us back off without actually drawing a blade.

the structural material of most plants is cellulose, a polymer of glucose, bonded with alpha-beta 1,4 glycosidic linkages (it's a carbohydrate as well).

i thought everybody hated him over there

north korea isn't highly developed...but they have an army of 6.3 million and nukes, so they are not to be taken lightly

i see a light in north korea! can you see it?

if candidates spent their own money only, bill gates would run and win

well, we all know it was photoshopped because the world is never completely dark like that

you liked tdr? he was bloody insane! spanish-american war says it enough. then he had his son fight in the first world war and he died, and tdr sunk into depression for the rest of his life. sheesh. also, you must realize that after the second world war, both parties changed significantly