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"its the circuits which are made out of silicon" Well duh! I was just amazed of the fact that it's POROUS silicon, which is quite an exotic form of it. And tolgucak, no matter how bad you want the 6061 powder, tripleposting is not a good option.

Safety is, of course, a very important factor when doing just about anything (especially when spending a night with a Russian prostitute j/k ). So, perhaps if you would give rough borders for the experiment, then we were able to serve you better. :>

A guy from Texas visits Finland. He goes on a guided tour, but everything seems to be too small. "And here's the famous church", the guide says. "Oh, how small it is!" Minutes then pass, and they arrive at a famous statue. "Oh, how small it is!", the Texan shouts again. The guide really starts to get pissed off. Soon, a huge hedgehog runs over the road. "Wow, what was that?!", the Texan says amazed. The guide then realizes that his big chance has come and says: "Oh that... it seems that the crab lice are rather small this year."

Doesn't it have to be alkaline drain cleaner, not acidic?

Make a fragment grenade using some bolts, drain cleaner, aluminum foil, an empty soda can and a torch of some sort.

I mean't that it's heavier than water, but not even twice as heavy. I think it's 1.74 when water is 1. Still, very light if you ask me. Edit: Lithium, on the other hand, weighs about the 0.5g / cc you mentioned.

50g of magnesium is quite a lot, come to think of it. It's not even twice as heavy as water.

There's a picture of a guy bending it with one hand, so you can probably bend it with ease, it just returns to its original shape. The material seems somewhat transparent too, don't know if that's the case with thicker pieces though.

Yipes! It doesn't have too much ignition risk, because of the water vapor though... or does it?

Soon there's dead people all over the place. Mmm... Soylent green.

"But there is certainly no guaruntee that an intelligent species will evolve, over hundreds of millions of years we are the only one that we know of." That's because humans "fill" the "locker" where the most intelligent species belong. That's also the reason why we won't be seeing apes developing into humans right now, or in the future.

Wow, I wonder when they start making condoms out of the stuff. j/k

Those things are actually common somewhere? Damn, I really have to move to a warmer country.

Heh, I have the purple-flower thingie that came with Windows XP and put 100 decimals of pi on it. I have memorized 71 so far. \o/

"but heating does, as it will yield diatomic oxygen and water" (2)H2O2 -> (2)H2O + O2 ? I always thought heating hydrogen peroxide is something I wouldn't like to do.

If someone's looking for thorium and uranium (no, not any boring oxides, pure metal!) or perhaps promethium and radium (in watch dial form), RGB is a good choice to obtain such elements, legally! And since they are located in London, the UK fellows (who seem to be quite a majority here) won't have a problem with that.

Well, you could always make your own mercury switches with it.

"A Joule is equal to one watt-sec, therefore a gram of matter equals 25 million kilowatt-hours." Therefore, with that one gram you could power those ten 100 watt bulbs for about 2854 years (for those who have problems using the calculator ).

Getting rid of mercury is a pain in the ass. Why don't you start an element store of your own where you can sell the excess Hg?

Some gallium compounds aren't so sticky. And as I said, they're not so reliable. Or dynamic. But who said that a tilt switch has to have a liquid metal in it? Yes, there are rather interesting solutions available when it comes to tilt switches.

If you need the mercury for an experiment or something, perhaps you could try and extract it yourself. But if you're looking for an element sample (as one might guess since this is the element collecting thread ) you're probably better off with even a small amount of ultra pure mercury.

"Any way, Marie Curie was a blonde (I think)" That's not too good for the blonde reputation to have an individual who died of cancer due to too much radium watching. Just kidding of course, as you said, Nobel prizes and everything. And back then, no one really knew how dangerous radiation actually was.

Sounds like a reasonable price to me. I trust it's electronic grade purity? I think KNO3.com sold it on eBay (perhaps that's the one you're looking at).

Uhh, I'm tired. Does it have to be N+ to have 4 H? Or am I missing something here?

"and NH5 can`t exist fullstop (lack of places for the H to occupy)." Got a mental image of five H sitting on a nitrogen atom, one of them saying "This place isn't big enough for the five of us".