Gilded

"Suppose it depends if you're making apple turnover, or gelignite." Guess you got a point there Sayo.

Hmmh. I prefer stoichometric amounts instead of "parts", since even though they can be made quite accurate, sometimes it's just not accurate enough.

"Point taken, but i've never heard xenophobia being used to describe hatred of homosexuals, a group considered 'different' by some. It is used exclusively to describe those who have different national or racial origins." Probably because there is already "homophobia", so why use "xenophobia". It's like screaming "Look, an organism!" instead of "Look, a bird!". And I personally have heard of using "xenophobia" when discussing the "fear" of homosexuals. "Pedants of the world unit!" Hmmh, I wonder when my Pedant Club member card comes in the mail.

"What is the airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow?" What do you mean, African or European swallow? "Uhh... I don't know that!" *swansont is blown off the bridge*

Hmmh. I wonder how pissed planet destroying weapon bearing aliens will get if a show they liked got cancelled. DEATH TO HUMANS, THEY CANCELLED TONIGHT'S FOOTBALL GAME!

Oh my, Phi for All. Sounds like someone has watched some Monty Python, eh?

Pottery suppliers sell aluminum powder? Hmm...

A 50 milligram ampoule shouldn't be too dangerous to get rid of. Of course, if you buy over 1g amounts you just might want to consider keeping it in a very, very safe place.

If you have old (over 10 years or so) pencil sharpeners around, they just might be made of an over 90% Mg alloy.

"Viable fusion power plants replacing all fossil fuel burners." Didn't they try to use "neodymium lasers" to achieve fusion without the high temperatures? Beats me what a neodymium laser actually is.

"It’s nearly impossible to light a block" Have you seen the burning of a computer cover-thingie made of magnesium? Damn, they put some hard effort into lighting it.

Yarrrhh, thar be choking about. I'm rather annoyed with the forums being inaccessible for even over hour-long periods, especially when I'm about to post jokes.

Wow! Uranium! Two-Three-Five, blowing sky high. Beautiful mushroom.

I also would like to complete my element collection (at least for the naturally occurring part of it). Wouldn't mind launching a homemade rocket to the lower orbits either.

Hmmh. I guess it will take quite a while (if not forever, in the aspect of humans are extinct before it) for humans to find an equally intelligent species (or one that's superior to us in the aspect of intelligence), but I don't think it will take too long for us to find life, just any life no matter how simple, on another planet. I recall this thread being about Titan's inhabitability. We might discuss that a bit too.

"Heh... that was the 666th reply." I was about to honor the 666th post by a God vs. Devil joke, but now I'm scared because when I tried to post it the server got "busy". But even with the possibility of God smiting me with a gazillion volt lightning, I'm going to post some religious (and/or other) jokes soon, so don't you worry. :>

It's absolutely amazing how dozens of elements and compounds have been discovered simultaneously by many persons. :S That sort of things create a lot of controversy...

"6. Extract gold" That's quite easy with the chem.. Uh what was it now. Anyway, I personally would like to see a live nuclear test. Not too close though. Too bad the bloody Greenpeace/other whiners are trying to put brakes on my dream.

Capsaicin owns. If someone is interested in capsaicin values in chili peppers, Google up the Scoville scale. Or actually, even when it's quite about midnight, I had no better things to do than even do the Googling for you lazy bums out there. http://www.chemsoc.org/exemplarchem/entries/mbellringer/scoville.htm Although, you could probably find a better explanation/comparison with a little more searching, but I'm not up for it.

Now that I think of it, throwing cesium away is like throwing gold away (in the value sense). A good *BOOM* is of course always worth a couple of grams Cs.

Bismuth trioxide seems to be quite unpopular in pyro, except for the dragon egg thing. :/

"...It's stupid (and selfish) to consider us the only life in the universe." Seconded. It's like saying "You're not going to win anything" to a guy who bought a million 1-in-3-wins scratch tickets.

"in Chilis the name Capsicum Fructescens is used, but also Capsicum Pubescens." I trust the name of capsaicin (C18H27NO3) comes from that prefix?

Hmmh. Doing this sort of things in a noble gas atmosphere wouldn't be a bad idea... How much cesium you got cashsphere, or do you just want to know for future cases? Of course, if you have a lot of cesium, selling it wouldn't be a bad idea either. Its market value is about 50$ a gram.

Send it to me. j/k No really, cesium is something not to play with. Although I would personally dispose of it by throwing it into a snowpile or something. Now let's see... You could probably make cesium chloride out of it (quite stable, used in cancer medication). Perhaps a displacement reaction with sodium chloride would be appropriate? I'm not too sure how much heat it will generate though (probably quite much).