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One day...I SO have to drop a whopping great lump of potassium into a bog and run like hell. As it happens, theres a spare toilet available that isn't installed. Just need to get the power supply up and running again or buy a new one to make the potassium. I'd do it with rubidium but its incredibly expensive, as is caesium. Pity, because I've seen a video where somebody threw caesium into a bathtub of water. Result? scratch one bath tub, blasted to smithereens and a veritable mushroom cloud of smoke and water. Or break a vial of NaK alloy (a mixture of sodium and potassium, its liquid at room temperature, I've produced a little via electrolysis of mixed sodium/potassium hydroxide but the stuff is so damnably reactive that I'll have to build a fully contained inert gas chamber running under positive pressure, or do it in a vacuum chamber because I've never managed to even isolate the stuff, it ignites the microsecond it hits air, even under a jet of argon to displace as much air as possible, and with the crucible surrounded by a cylindrical shield. It ignited in showers of sparks instantly as it was produced at the anode. And the mixture of NaOH and caustic potash is MUCH more aggressive than molten NaOH alone. Sodium is doable, it just takes a little persistence in design of the electrolytic cell. It can, with a continual inert gas supply, even be isolated in the open air if using low temperature eutectic salt mixtures. A mixture of NaOH and KOH melts at around 200 degrees 'C but its aggressive as hell and whilst the nickel alloy anode used for NaOH melt electrolysis was fine after a 12 hour period immersed in molten caustic soda, in the NaOH/KOH melt it got corroded so severely that within hours it had  sharpened itself to a needle-point tip and a razor sharp edge.

Going to try carbon electrodes next.
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Re: random thread, for all that you can't find an appropriate thread for.
« Reply #1006 on: June 28, 2017, 09:50:26 PM »
Today when I was at college, the admin lady getting my details asked to see my birth certificate. This is something I don't carry around! I offered my drivers licence but she didn't want it. Finally she accepted my Unique Student Identifier, which is a long series of random numbers and letters. Lucky I brought that with me on a piece of paper.
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Re: random thread, for all that you can't find an appropriate thread for.
« Reply #1007 on: July 01, 2017, 03:43:43 AM »
Five years ago my youngest made me a mother's day present at school. A wooden small crate with shelves for in the garden.
I had hung it on the fence between me and my neighbour. Her male cat took it to be one of his favourite places.

It was getting flimsy over the years. I added some extra screws but knew it would break to pieces some day.

Today it did. And I missed it. I would so have loved seeing it happen. Don't know who was on it, because Lorre had claimed it to be his too. But the sight would have been priceless.

Only heard it fall. I had some glass on the shelves. None of the glass broke. It made the sound of a whole tray of dishes falling to pieces.

The female cat from next door is a shy thing. But she kept coming really close to watch at the mess. She even let me pet her more than once.
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Re: random thread, for all that you can't find an appropriate thread for.
« Reply #1008 on: October 15, 2017, 12:32:56 AM »
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Re: random thread, for all that you can't find an appropriate thread for.
« Reply #1009 on: October 15, 2017, 12:37:26 AM »
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The quality of my posts is mesmerising.  :cbc:
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Re: random thread, for all that you can't find an appropriate thread for.
« Reply #1010 on: October 15, 2017, 01:46:41 AM »
We are in awe. :)
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Re: random thread, for all that you can't find an appropriate thread for.
« Reply #1011 on: October 15, 2017, 03:24:30 AM »
Thank you, thank you.
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Re: random thread, for all that you can't find an appropriate thread for.
« Reply #1012 on: October 15, 2017, 07:25:17 AM »
Found some Dolby stuff on eBay that I really want but that I can't really justify buying. :(
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Re: random thread, for all that you can't find an appropriate thread for.
« Reply #1013 on: October 15, 2017, 08:21:05 AM »
Found some Dolby stuff on eBay that I really want but that I can't really justify buying. :(

"I hit the bid button by mistake."
"My dog bumped the phone."
"My kid hit buy it now."

Pick one. >:D

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Re: random thread, for all that you can't find an appropriate thread for.
« Reply #1014 on: October 15, 2017, 11:50:01 AM »
Found some Dolby stuff on eBay that I really want but that I can't really justify buying. :(

"I hit the bid button by mistake."
"My dog bumped the phone."
"My kid hit buy it now."

Pick one. >:D

 :lol1:

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Re: random thread, for all that you can't find an appropriate thread for.
« Reply #1015 on: October 15, 2017, 01:02:49 PM »
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And it keeps on giving.
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Re: random thread, for all that you can't find an appropriate thread for.
« Reply #1016 on: October 15, 2017, 01:04:31 PM »
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And more.

No idea why I'm so thrilled with those sixes, ones, zeros and eights today.
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Re: random thread, for all that you can't find an appropriate thread for.
« Reply #1017 on: October 15, 2017, 11:55:19 PM »
:dunno:

Numbers can be pretty.
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Re: random thread, for all that you can't find an appropriate thread for.
« Reply #1018 on: October 16, 2017, 09:29:51 AM »
I've watched The Man Who Knew Infinity twice.  I will watch it again because it is interesting on a human level and on a mathematical level.
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Re: random thread, for all that you can't find an appropriate thread for.
« Reply #1019 on: October 16, 2017, 10:02:02 AM »
^I've been wondering if I should see it or not.
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