Gilded

Cerosin-remake of napalm, U-grenades and Daisy Cutters. Ehh. I can barely wait for the day U.S. pulls a salted/cobalt-shelled nuke attack.

Yeah, I knew it was merely an approximation but I wasn't sure how badly it fails in high speeds. Sooo... Perhaps someone could tell me how to calculate Ke in a relativistic way. ) I mean, I know the formula but how do you calculate an object's total energy?

The day threads become completely self-moderated, Sayo has to bitch at someone in real life. ) (OK bad joke, please don't slit my jugular with a rusty knife, dear sir :<< ) Anyway, even though YT said it's good that we got out of the drug zone, I must add that a friend of mine sold a few grams of potato flour for about 30$ or so. "Yes, it does ionize in water, but in the same way that table salt does." Well sort of in the same way, but then again in a bit different way.

Oh, I forgot to mention they have a ridiculous 3000 SEK minimum order (excluding shipping!), that's over goddamn 420$. So unless you're really going to buy in bulk or lots of different stuff, svenskakemi.nu seems to be of no use. :/

"Using liquid Nitrogen is more fun than salting the ice, and actually makes better ice cream (colder = smaller ice crystals = better, smoother flavor. or so I'm told. It was tasty)" Yeah, liquid nitrogen doesn't really let time for big crystals to form. http://www.theodoregray.com/PeriodicTable/Stories/SacksVisit/index.html <- three movie clips of making ice cream with N2(aq)

Yeah, I've just had my first lessons in kinetic energy (Newtonian mechanics) at high school some time ago. However, quite soon I noticed that for a massless object going at c, the kinetic energy is 0. And so, I went "aha, so that's why you don't need to kick photons around to make them move". However, this made me think: how come photons have energy then? Is it only proportional to the wavelength, and if someone tells you the wavelength of a photon you can tell the energy in it right away? Or should I just go and use ONLY the relativistic mech. way to calculate Ek and get a correct result, as I have no idea how to do it. )

Swedish crowns (or whatever it's in English) have always been of low value. Damn Swedes should've changed to Euro, after all they're in EU. ) Currently, 1 US dollar gives you approximately 6.73 SEK.

"i'd just use 35% hydrochloric from drain cleaners." Heard you could use citric acid too, but we're not allowed to talk about that. And yeah, "piranha bath" isn't nice to even have around, and let's not even talk about cases involving people's feet or other dear body parts and lots of spilled H2SO5 (that's the composition right?). Having an unnecessary acid-caused hole through your floor isn't nice either, I'd imagine.

It would be rather awesome though if you could just collide two high-energy photons into each other to make a positron or something. )

http://www.svenskakemi.nu A good source of nice pyrotechnics chemicals and supplies (and an expensive element collection that looks very much, almost disturbingly same as the RGB-one ) for Europeans (especially us Scandinavians). They're making a totally English version of the page it seems, but right now it's probably still under construction (but "kemikalier" should be easy to recognize as chemicals and for example "ammoniumdikromat" as ammonium dichromate ) ). Edit: Oh, and they got the formulas too. So if you don't recognize KNO3 as potassium nitrate, you should probably stay away from pyro-chemicals.

"yeah, that's what i'd gather. the more i think of it the more i think they made chlorine heptoxide" But isn't it rather colorless?

"64 fluid oz 97% sulfuric acid and 1 liter 35% hydrogen peroxide" Hmmmm... Not making any organic peroxides, are we?

Even animals recognize the fact that you shouldn't eat New Yorkers nor animals that have died due to eating New Yorkers. And wasn't there a case where a man jumped into a tiger cage naked in a zoo in/near NY and got away unharmed? ) Btw, I think jdurg is starting to feel offended about now since we're discussing completely different topics and ignoring his incredible luck.

Hmm... "blazars". Never even heard of them. ) Rather amusing subject though, especially for the contraction perceived from the particle's frame. The mass-energy equivalent is quite funny too (I mean come on, it's a proton with a m-e eq. near an E. coli bacterium ).

http://www.laughatrice.com/sg01-03.htm I'm not sure if I'll stop laughing before Monday. )

"that's really hot. damn i wish i could make cyanogen halides just to piss things off that tried to eat me" Yeah well, at the point you're being digested it's a bit too late to get out of the situation in one piece (literally). )

Once again, I'm reading interesting info that's abou 11 years old. This came up: http://www.fourmilab.ch/documents/ohmygodpart.html That was in -94. Wikipedia tells me that at least 15 similar phenomenons have been detected since the first detection. Has there been any recent research of origin of the so-called Oh-My-God-particle(s)?

Whoah. Looks somewhat Anarchy Online-ish. Well, at least now YT can design nanochips for an army of shed-guarding nanobots. )

What would Severian eat? http://www.freewebs.com/gildedchem/fruitquark.jpg (Copy link to address bar) Well, is it a poor joke about a German word? Why yes it is, thank you for asking.

You tell 'em swansie (OK I'll never call you that again ) ). Yeah, as the age of the sample increases, it's harder and harder to tell the exact date of creation (in the case of mineral samples, death in the case of organisms). And carbon dating is no good when samples are really old. This is where isotopes of elements like potassium and rubidium (in rock dating mostly) step in. And needless to say, I didn't get the irregular whatsimagicker-part either. :S Do you mean cases where the sample might have been lying right next to a uranium deposit or something that might have screwed up a couple of atoms of the sample?

I heard that if other vital organs (heart etc.) would last, a human could live about 180 years. But at that point, even the brain starts to be at a really, really bad condition and it's a nasty part to fix. *Miscellaneous info from who knows what source*

http://www.lateralscience.co.uk/Fluorine/Fluorine.html <- some info about the experiment (and fluorine in general) The date-problem is quite odd though. I can't seem to find it anywhere.

Hmmh, I guess I'd rather make even sodium or potassium myself rather than gasses like hydrogen or chlorine, they're eeeevil. At least the ones you can't see. Also, I'd like to add that I personally have came to the conclusion that the only exception I'll make with the "museum/lab grade rule" is with extremely short-lived elements (which means that a uranium block is a good sample of radon for me, but a nail from a hardware store isn't a good sample for iron ). And by the way, toss any New Year's tin out of your collection's tin locker if you're interested in pure samples as I am. They usually have great amounts of lead and bismuth and who knows what in addition to tin.

"Are Bitter and sour not the same i thought bases had a soapy taste like ehh...... soap" Yeah, I thought of the same thing. Although, now that I thought of it, I realized that sour is probably "kirpeä" in Finnish (that's what you'd probably call pure lemon juice) and bitter is "hapan" like... err, old milk. Brilliant. :>

O, premature death! Sweet McDonald's, here I come! Big Macs down the throat!