Gilded

Yeah, the oxygen attracts the electron more, since it's more electronegative.

Doesn't lightning also fuse some O2 into O3?

Talking of diatomic, does gold occur in nature as diatomic molecules? Or is it just that it CAN occur as diatomic molecules?

"in no wonder piracy is so prevalent when CD's cost 15 pounds in UK" We've got over 20€ CD's too. :< <A dash off topic> How much are PC games in the UK? New games are about 52€ here.

"A male freind with a diamond ring, whaaa???" I have a diamond. Though it's not in a ring. And it's quite small. But it's not the size that matters, but how you use it! And don't you try to deny that all Englishmen walk around with their diamond rings and lager pints. Or maybe it was just the pints.

You might want to borrow your friend's diamond ring; he'll be happy when you tell the diamond is in a better place - helping the greenhouse effect.

"what does everyone have that belongs to them, but others use it more than you do?" Names! At least everyone should have one. If you don't, get one today!

"Are oxides of metal soluble in water?" Don't they become hydroxides when in water? And form an alkaline solution? And non-metal oxides form an acidic solution? No wait, too much mushrooms... Perhaps bud knows something about this. "I assume that pottasium first having reaction with water, and then dissolve..., but dissolve in what??? Hydrogen are released, I think..." "Oh Sir, please take my electron", says potassium. "Right'o", says water, takes the electron and kicks one of its hydrogens away. And as we know, hydrogen is one of those dudes who likes to be with... another dude. (2)Na + (2)H2O --> (2)Na+ + (2)OH- + H2 So... hydrogen is released, potassium loses its electron, and OH- are formed. The Na+ and OH- would happily form NaOH, but the evil water molecules separate them. :/ This makes the solution become fairly alkaline when you add 'em alkali metals in it.

"like what?? Glided" Well, you can certainly have a molecule that consists of two gold atoms. And please, call me Gilded. Or G. Or Gil. But not Glided.

"Hardly anyone puts their birthday information in to their profiles" Yeah, that's just voluntarily making the FBI's work easier.

1 kiloton nuke... I wonder what that's like (not that I'd like to experience it too close to me). Plutonium with an implosion core?

Oh dear, I've got my geography test damn soon. This morning really.

Oops, I forgot that I actually read the interview with Sam Cohen sometime ago, and there it was stated: "Between 1958 and 1961 the neutron bomb idea was tested successfully, but the politicians in Washington nixed development and deployment of the weapon. Cohen persisted. As the Vietnam War began and festered in the 1960s, Cohen became an advocate of using neutron bombs there. To Cohen, his weapon was "a perfect fit" for dealing with the Viet Cong hidden in the jungles and rice paddies. Again, the politicians had other ideas. Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara ruled that no nuclear weapons of any type would be used in the war. The use of the small neutron bombs would have brought the war to a quick end, Cohen still argues, and saved the loss of more than 50,000 American lives."

"Teenagers should get around 8 to 10 hours of sleep" That's what the buggers keep telling me but I showed... *yawn* them... No problems at school either because of sleep deprivation... OH GOD IT'S TUESDAY! I'M 24 HOURS LATE! Must go to school... Wha? ZzzZzzZzz...

It's possible that on a forum where there are about 3000 members, all have birthdays in, let's say, February. As stated, it's just very unlikely, but possible.

"and basically you hit the pressure points, and then something happens to the body. its weird." Sounds like the five-point-whatever-technique from Kill Bill vol 2.

I wonder why US didn't use neutron bombs in Vietnam. Would have saved a lot of lives back then...

"Metals are not made of molecules!!!" [nitpicking]Some metals occur as diatomic molecules[/nitpicking]

"Over summer i stayed up all night and went to bed at 5am." Sounds exactly like me. It's quite strange here in the summer time, because of the midnight sun and all that. Sundown @ about 2:00 and sunrise @ about 4:00 AM. "esp hard in the winter if your bedroom`s cold Brrrr..." For some reason, I prefer to sleep in a cold room. Sometimes last winter when it was -25 C outside I kept my window, or the side-ventilation window-thingie, open for the night.

Oh bugger. I would have earned 6 (of maximum 36) points if I knew it was that easy. So... When a year has passed, the C-14 amount is approximately 99.9879% of the original amount (if we use 5730 years as the half-life time)?

"About 200 MeV." Yipes! About how much of that goes to the released neutrons (when there are 4)? Or is it a rather random amount?

Heh, I at least realized it was just a concept, as it's hard for anyone to get even a gram of pure radium. Btw, as I remembered this is the thread that brought me here in the first place, the Radioactive Boyscout came to mind. And from that comes to mind U-233: Does someone know how much energy is released in fission of such a nucleus? Not that I'm going to build a similar apparatus as David Hahn did.

Talking about this sort of calculations, in my recent math test I had something like this: C-14 has a half-life of 5700 years (yeah, actually it's 5730). Then I had to make a function that has x as the amount of years passed, and with an outcome that tells how much of the C-14 is still left. Like if the x is 5700, then the outcome is 0.5, and if the x is 1, the outcome is something like 0.999 or so. I had NO idea how to do this sort of calculations (no matter how much we've practiced it before the test ). What's the correct function for this?

"BTW; the earth has 2 moons" If it ain't gravitationally bound, I'm not going to call it a moon. >:/ Unless you make me eat plastic forks with chili mustard.

"wicked, did they really!!" Perhaps ExtraSense knows something about that.