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Well OK, point taken. And now that we're talking about demolition, I might even say that men are generally less careful with explosives than women, or then I'm just missing all the articles about WOMEN receiving grade three burns or losing bodyparts due to making a fatal and stupid, chemical related mistake.

They're certainly on to something there.

"how is math performed in other countries where english isnt the primary language? math has some tricky stuff and i cant picture calculus in anything other than numbers." -sepultallica Lol. Yeah, we don't have numbers here in Finland. We count in reindeers.

I wonder what they'd say at the NRC if you'd call them and said "I just built a cyclotron from scratch and it's in my backyard. Is that OK?"

"i'm not too into explosives tho." Well I'll be damned, an American who isn't into explosives!

"Well if it has an electron, then it's not a nucleus. HAHA! Successful nitpick!" ¤#¤%! The Force is strong in this one. I meant of course that a nucleus could get an electron, becoming an atom.

"I know when I become a dad, my child will have the Chemistry set from hell, and full supervision/encouragement :)" Are you going to find out if it's a boy or girl before the birth? More than boys, girls tend to have odd habits like "I don't like blowing things up with lethal and corrosive chemicals". )

"Maybe you should ask Tim Koeth" Wow. Quite an achievement, that cyclotron. And for only $15 000! Could use one myself.

Bah. Well, if you necessarily want to look at it that way then I give up. I still prefer to think that protons are hydrogen nuclei, as alpha particles are helium nuclei, no matter how many electrons they have.

"i dont think they sell outside the us. dont buy from them" Well, if they don't sell outside US I have no problem with receiving deadly bromine impurities with my chemicals.

Hmmh... bud, I don't recommend snapping your fingers next to a large batch of NI3.

Yeah, jdurg covered it quite well. Water molecules are like... err, zombies. They tear each other apart all the time.

Once again, it has been proved that you can write a "scientifical" study about anything you want, no matter how silly it is. "Acquired growth hormone deficiency and hypogonadotropic hypogonadism in a subject with repeated head trauma, or Tintin goes to the neurologist" http://www.cmaj.ca/cgi/content/full/171/12/1433 Guess we got an explanation for why Tintin is... err, the kind of fellow he is. ))

It's quite amazing how much noise there is in places you wouldn't expect the noise to be over 60db or so. I recall my 7th-9th grade school cafeteria (or dining room or whatever) having even up to 90db. Yipes. Finnish people are mostly shy and quiet fellows but when they get together the noise becomes unbearable.

Are you sure there wasn't a small print that said "This KI has great amounts of KBr impurities that will kill you if you use it for anything"? Edit: Btw, was Al-chymist one of those chem providers who don't sell outside US?

"TSATF is entirely narrated. Sometimes, the narrater is one who is incapable of correct language. That is the point of the sections with poor grammar." Alrighty then. Since I haven't read TSATF (and even if I did I'm quite sure I would have read the Finnish translation) I was just assuming things, which didn't turn out too well (once again). :/

If I had access to similar chemicals and stuff as they have at United Nuclear, I wouldn't have another boring day.

Quite... Interesting. In a very, very disturbing way.

"A similar thing can be said with helium. You can technically make helium by letting an alpha emitter decay in a closed vessel. You are making the helium nucleus whenever the radioactive item decays. Theoretically, you could just distill that helium on out of there. Neat isn't it?" Actually, that's exactly how helium was first discovered (on Earth, it was discovered in the Sun earlier using spectre observing). And as I said, nucleosynthesis is an exception. And taking or giving an atom an electron or two isn't making new elements, dammit! In other words: *whine whine whine blah blah blah*

I don't think the OH- has the potential to break up an H-H bond.

"i'm going to write an email to the al-chymist telling them how they almost completely screwed me over" Hmm? Because of the bromine impurities? And didn't Al-chymist stop selling... stuff just recently (which was the reason they had the sale with low prices and all)?

"i figured that it was an oxide/peroxide/superoxide layer that was broken through at the very moment i snapped my fingers. cool occurrence" Whoah. I wonder if you could use that as a magic trick. )

"Thats what I meant." Oh OK, alright.

"I suggest you read "The Elegant Universe" and "The Fabric of the Cosmos." Both are written by Briam Greene." The Elegant Universe seems like an interesting book (and is also advertised by SFN members on a regular basis ). Does it mainly deal with superstrings or... what?

Perhaps with a surveillance camera or binoculars...