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Skwala May 14th, 2006 07:00 AM

I used to have fun with chemistry
 
Only, not like this.

http://www.easy2remember.name/media/...-in-water.html



Frank Reid May 14th, 2006 02:35 PM

I used to have fun with chemistry
 
I wish I could find the box that has the speakers for my 'puter. That
was cool.
Frank Reid


rb608 May 14th, 2006 02:54 PM

I used to have fun with chemistry
 
"Frank Reid" wrote in message
ups.com...
I wish I could find the box that has the speakers for my 'puter. That
was cool.


Indeed it was. The two chaps have what we colonials call a British accent,
which IMO definitely adds to the presentation.

Joe



Frank Reid May 14th, 2006 03:32 PM

I used to have fun with chemistry
 
Well, I could conceive of a situation where one of the jokers on this
board would spike someones fly with one of the two elements (the second
connotation of that line scares the crap outta me).
Frank Reid


Sam Stump May 14th, 2006 04:14 PM

I used to have fun with chemistry
 
"Skwala" wrote in news:1Az9g.2125$n14.64
@fe03.lga:

Spec-tacular! I had a way cool science teacher in the 8th grade, and I
remember this like it was yesterday. First, he brought the class outside
to the edge of a field, in the middle of which was a 5-gal bucket. He then
produced a jar with a chunk of sodium (about the size of a bar of soap)
immersed in motor oil or kerosene. He cut about a third of it off with a
pocket knife, re-sealed the remainder, stored the jar and casually walked
out to the bucket with the sodium on the end of his knife. All we saw was
him leaning over the bucket for a second, and then hauling a$$ back to
where the class was gathered. Very shortly thereafter....BOOOM!!!

Ahhh...memories!

Sam

P.S. we got a brand new teacher for advanced chemistry after that.

Only, not like this.

http://www.easy2remember.name/media/...-in-water.html




rw May 14th, 2006 05:57 PM

I used to have fun with chemistry
 
Cool video.

My substitute high school chemistry teacher, who was a fool, tried to
impress us by burning iron filings in oxygen gas. After the fireworks he
stood there dumbfounded, his face and bare arms turning bright red and
his hair singed, then he fled from the classroom and we never saw him again.

--
Cut "to the chase" for my email address.

rw May 14th, 2006 09:37 PM

I used to have fun with chemistry
 
Stephen Welsh wrote:
I dunno Frank, perhaps its best you not hear about Frankium.

;-)


That stuff is the dog's balls. :-)

--
Cut "to the chase" for my email address.

Stephen Welsh May 14th, 2006 10:23 PM

I used to have fun with chemistry
 
I dunno Frank, perhaps its best you not hear about Frankium.

;-)

Steve (Yeah, I know it's spelleded Francium)


Frank Reid May 15th, 2006 03:35 AM

I used to have fun with chemistry
 
http://fr.physics.sunysb.edu/francium_news/frconten.htm

- a relatively young member of the periodic table -- Okay, I'm still
relatively young, or young in relation to relativity
- the heaviest of the simple atoms. -- I'm trying to loose that weight
and who's calling whom "simple?"
- radioactive, the most unstable of the first 103 elements --
UNSTABLE!!! I'LL GET YOU FOR THAT!!!
- able to be trapped -- but not on film

Other facts:
- it's longest lived isotope has a half-life of 22 minutes - No, my
equipment does.
- Francium occurs as a result of a disintegration of actinium -- when
a fly fishing ACTivity disinigrates, you naturally get a Frank (or a
Full Reid)
Frank Reid


[email protected] May 15th, 2006 04:23 AM

I used to have fun with chemistry
 
On 14 May 2006 07:32:51 -0700, "Frank Reid"
wrote:

Well, I could conceive of a situation where one of the jokers on this
board would spike someones fly with one of the two elements (the second
connotation of that line scares the crap outta me).
Frank Reid


Sounds great....but one word - oxidation.

HTH,
R

Cyli May 15th, 2006 06:18 AM

I used to have fun with chemistry
 
On Sat, 13 May 2006 23:00:42 -0700, "Skwala"
wrote:

Only, not like this.

http://www.easy2remember.name/media/...-in-water.html



Thanks. Fun stuff.
--

r.bc: vixen
Speaker to squirrels, willow watcher, etc..
Often taunted by trout. Almost entirely harmless. Really.

Don't ask me what time it is lest I'm of
a mood to tell you how to make a clock.

http://www.visi.com/~cyli

riverman May 15th, 2006 01:17 PM

I used to have fun with chemistry
 

"rw" wrote in message
m...
Stephen Welsh wrote:
I dunno Frank, perhaps its best you not hear about Frankium.

;-)


That stuff is the dog's balls. :-)


Except that its so rare, that at any one time there is less than an ounce of
it in the entire crust of the planet.
http://www.scescape.net/~woods/elements/francium.html

Perhaps that's why they invented neuticles?

--riverman




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