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"When I make big batches, I like to put some sugar in there so it will attract flies and bees as it's drying. It's really fun to see a big nasty hornet get blown to pieces when it gets near the pile." Somebody, call the activists!

" It came in a box with 2" dimensions." Rofl. Was it in a glass jar or something?

" It came in a box with 2" dimensions." Rofl. Was it in a glass jar or something?

Ahh, Half-Life 2 will take my weekend.

Ahh, Half-Life 2 will take my weekend.

"if not, take one on a trip down the london underground to see what they think, or more to the point what others think!" I always thought it would be cool if you had an insect or a spider large enough so that you could take it for a walk and scare people with it. I guess a 30cm scorpion should do it.

"if not, take one on a trip down the london underground to see what they think, or more to the point what others think!" I always thought it would be cool if you had an insect or a spider large enough so that you could take it for a walk and scare people with it. I guess a 30cm scorpion should do it.

Hmmm... I wonder how much fun painting someone's summer cottage with nitrogen tri-iodide would be.

Hmmm... I wonder how much fun painting someone's summer cottage with nitrogen tri-iodide would be.

http://www.wellesley.edu/Chemistry/chem241/en.html Some info about calculating electronegativity in common use. Seems quite complicated though. Edit: Also, found this one from the "strongest acid" thread (stated by budullewraagh): according to linus pauling: X=((0.31(n+1+or-c))/r)+0.50 n=valance electrons c=formal valance charge on atom. is positive or negative depending on polarity of charge. r=covalent radius

http://www.wellesley.edu/Chemistry/chem241/en.html Some info about calculating electronegativity in common use. Seems quite complicated though. Edit: Also, found this one from the "strongest acid" thread (stated by budullewraagh): according to linus pauling: X=((0.31(n+1+or-c))/r)+0.50 n=valance electrons c=formal valance charge on atom. is positive or negative depending on polarity of charge. r=covalent radius

Don't they put high temp. fires out with something else than water because the sudden rise in temperature is enough to separate hydrogen and oxygen from H2O by itself?

Don't they put high temp. fires out with something else than water because the sudden rise in temperature is enough to separate hydrogen and oxygen from H2O by itself?

"is that another one of yours?" It says: Swanson Tom. And even has a Tom logo on it. Perhaps, perhaps. "my first element arrioved today; Bismuth" It's good to start cheap (well, I'd consider bismuth cheap in a pellet form, trusting your sample is a pellet of bismuth). I started off expensive: 5.08g of iridium, cost me 40£

"is that another one of yours?" It says: Swanson Tom. And even has a Tom logo on it. Perhaps, perhaps. "my first element arrioved today; Bismuth" It's good to start cheap (well, I'd consider bismuth cheap in a pellet form, trusting your sample is a pellet of bismuth). I started off expensive: 5.08g of iridium, cost me 40£

Ahh reminds me of good old 6th grade when we messed with good ol' gasoline. Many fun foot-setting-on-fire and other nice occasions.

"Go mucking through the mud, or go to the drug store to buy tincture" Judging by looking at your house and car, you seem to certainly be one of those people who have the money to buy all the tincture in the world instead of running around at the beach chasing seaweed.

"karat is a measurement of WEIGHT" Yes, as others have pointed out, you're wrong. It's carat, not karat (we got the same problem here in Finland too, both are called "karaatti"). A carat is about 0.2g, and as stated usually used in measuring gemstone weights. The word carat comes from a plant, Ceratonia siliqua (a.k.a. St. John's Bread) since the seeds were used as gemstone weights. So, if you measured that a diamond weighed as much as five seeds of the plant, it was roughly about 1g (as it is today).

"Red Bull is constantly advertised in england" Same thing here. We got also Battery, Piranha, B-52, Red Devil, Bullit... I haven't had time to even taste them all.

"i hate where i live." Yet you live in US, the homeland of United Nuclear and other fun... stuff. >:/

"( ithink i saw this in kill bill)" I think you saw it in Unbreakable. Or then I ate too many mushrooms.

Yeah, I was thinking about the weight ratios too. But of course, you will probably like to keep some of the Hg to yourself. And when we consider that they used about 2g charges of Hg fulminate in #8 blasting caps... interesting.

"i have orderd 500g of mercury from them" Now then, three things come to mind: Year 2007. SFN 5th anniversary meeting in UK. Half a kilo of mercury fulminate.

" http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...oo/s1010002.jpg " Must... get... to England... any... way... possible.

[jamaica-accent]It's all to do with the electronegativity, mon.[/jamaica-accent] "while the H+ ion will take the electron and move out of solution." Those little buggers leave the poor metal floating around with a +1 charge and then fly off as H2 gas? I didn't realize how sad it was. :<