I used to have fun with chemistry

Only, not like this.

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

I wish I could find the box that has the speakers for my 'puter. That
was cool.
Frank Reid

"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

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

"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

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.

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Stephen Welsh wrote:
I dunno Frank, perhaps its best you not hear about Frankium.

;-)

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

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Cut "to the chase" for my email address.

I dunno Frank, perhaps its best you not hear about Frankium.

;-)

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

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

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