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"Autymn D. C." |
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23 Mar 2007 10:57:33 AM |
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Hai, what are your favorite elements? |
Pick at most six. Here are mine: rhenium, tin, bismuth, caesium,
thorium, beryllium.
-Aut
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| User: "Uncle Al" |
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| Title: Re: Hai, what are your favorite elements? |
23 Mar 2007 01:22:47 PM |
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"Autymn D. C." wrote:
Pick at most six. Here are mine: rhenium, tin, bismuth, caesium,
thorium, beryllium.
-Aut
Idiot troll.
Shitanium, unobtainium, cavorite, jellium, cosmium, and phlogiston.
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Uncle Al
http://www.mazepath.com/uncleal/
(Toxic URL! Unsafe for children and most mammals)
http://www.mazepath.com/uncleal/lajos.htm#a2
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| User: "Autymn D. C." |
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23 Mar 2007 09:37:30 PM |
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On Mar 23, 11:22 am, Uncle Al <Uncle...@hate.spam.net> wrote:
"Autymn D. C." wrote:
Pick at most six. Here are mine: rhenium, tin, bismuth, caesium,
thorium, beryllium.
Idiot troll.
You're the only idiot [m=F2r=F2n] troll here. I would kill you to save
these groups. Shut up or die, shitspawn.
-Aut
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| User: "Brian Davis" |
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23 Mar 2007 02:48:44 PM |
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On Mar 23, 2:22 pm, Uncle Al <Uncle...@hate.spam.net> wrote:
"Autymn D. C." wrote...
Idiot troll.
Actually, it's been bugging us for a while over in rasfs (trimmed). My
general belief is that the reponses aren't intelligent enough for a
troll, and it's likely an Eliza-clone. Everybody sing with me, "And
you and me, are free to be, content-free..."
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Brian Davis
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| User: "Autymn D. C." |
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23 Mar 2007 09:44:05 PM |
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On Mar 23, 12:48 pm, "Brian Davis" <brda...@iusb.edu> wrote:
On Mar 23, 2:22 pm, Uncle Al <Uncle...@hate.spam.net> wrote:
"Autymn D. C." wrote...
Idiot troll.
Actually, it's been bugging us for a while over in rasfs (trimmed). My
general belief is that the reponses aren't intelligent enough for a
troll, and it's likely an Eliza-clone. Everybody sing with me, "And
you and me, are free to be, content-free..."
Correction: Your belief isn't intelligent yenoh for trollspotting, nor
can it spot intelligent inputs and corrections when they strike your
client.
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| User: "jim beam" |
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23 Mar 2007 10:10:56 PM |
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Autymn D. C. wrote:
On Mar 23, 12:48 pm, "Brian Davis" <brda...@iusb.edu> wrote:
On Mar 23, 2:22 pm, Uncle Al <Uncle...@hate.spam.net> wrote:
"Autymn D. C." wrote...
Idiot troll.
Actually, it's been bugging us for a while over in rasfs (trimmed). My
general belief is that the reponses aren't intelligent enough for a
troll, and it's likely an Eliza-clone. Everybody sing with me, "And
you and me, are free to be, content-free..."
Correction: Your belief isn't intelligent yenoh for trollspotting, nor
can it spot intelligent inputs and corrections when they strike your
client.
but it's intelligent enough to spell properly. unlike you.
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| User: "Salmon Egg" |
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24 Mar 2007 01:10:35 AM |
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On 3/23/07 8:10 PM, in article
lpOdndbP3b9cC5nbnZ2dnUVZ_rXinZ2d@speakeasy.net, "jim beam"
<spamvortex@bad.example.net> wrote:
but it's intelligent enough to spell properly.
Does that mean that dictionaries are intelligent while most people are not?
-- Fermez le Bush--about two years to go.
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| User: "Autymn D. C." |
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24 Mar 2007 10:39:24 PM |
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On Mar 23, 8:10 pm, jim beam <spamvor...@bad.example.net> wrote:
Autymn D. C. wrote:
On Mar 23, 12:48 pm, "Brian Davis" <brda...@iusb.edu> wrote:
On Mar 23, 2:22 pm, Uncle Al <Uncle...@hate.spam.net> wrote:
"Autymn D. C." wrote...
Idiot troll.
Actually, it's been bugging us for a while over in rasfs (trimmed). My
general belief is that the reponses aren't intelligent enough for a
troll, and it's likely an Eliza-clone. Everybody sing with me, "And
you and me, are free to be, content-free..."
Correction: Your belief isn't intelligent yenoh for trollspotting, nor
can it spot intelligent inputs and corrections when they strike your
client.
but it's intelligent enough to spell properly. unlike you.
I spell properly, cretin. The world does not. Learn English, Latin,
and H=E8llenic or shut up.
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| User: "The Ghost In The Machine" |
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25 Mar 2007 01:26:36 AM |
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In sci.physics, Autymn D. C.
<lysdexia@sbcglobal.net>
wrote
on 24 Mar 2007 20:39:24 -0700
<1174793964.049445.40450@o5g2000hsb.googlegroups.com>:
On Mar 23, 8:10 pm, jim beam <spamvor...@bad.example.net> wrote:
Autymn D. C. wrote:
On Mar 23, 12:48 pm, "Brian Davis" <brda...@iusb.edu> wrote:
On Mar 23, 2:22 pm, Uncle Al <Uncle...@hate.spam.net> wrote:
"Autymn D. C." wrote...
Idiot troll.
Actually, it's been bugging us for a while over in rasfs (trimmed). My
general belief is that the reponses aren't intelligent enough for a
troll, and it's likely an Eliza-clone. Everybody sing with me, "And
you and me, are free to be, content-free..."
Correction: Your belief isn't intelligent yenoh for trollspotting, nor
can it spot intelligent inputs and corrections when they strike your
client.
but it's intelligent enough to spell properly. unlike you.
I spell properly, cretin. The world does not. Learn English, Latin,
and Hèllenic or shut up.
No results found for "yenoh". Did you mean "ye noh" or "Yonoh"?
http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=yenoh
If you're trying to spell "enough", then spell it. If this
is some rather abstruse and obscure word that didn't make
it into dictionary.com, that's fine too, and there is a
www.yenoh.com, which appears to be some photoblogger or
shutterbug website. There is also a Filipino named
Yenoh Os on http://my.opera.com/Yenoh/albums/ . "Yenoh"
appears to be a proper name, though it could be a word, too;
such does happen.
(Google does cough up some slightly unusual stuff at times.)
As for Hellenic or Hèllenic -- ancient Greece fell
long ago. However, one could make a case for spelling
it in Greek characters. (I'd do so but my editor's
being a fusspot.)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greece
The Anglicized form is "Ellinikí Dhimokratía". This makes
me wonder if the term "republic" should only be used
for democratically-elected representatives, but that's a
side tangent.
Ditto for Rome.
--
#191,
GNU and improved.
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Posted via a free Usenet account from http://www.teranews.com
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| User: "Autymn D. C." |
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01 Apr 2007 12:22:39 PM |
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On Mar 24, 11:26 pm, The Ghost In The Machine
<e...@sirius.tg00suus7038.net> wrote:
In sci.physics, Autymn D. C.
<lysde...@sbcglobal.net>
wrote
on 24 Mar 2007 20:39:24 -0700
<1174793964.049445.40...@o5g2000hsb.googlegroups.com>:
On Mar 23, 8:10 pm, jim beam <spamvor...@bad.example.net> wrote:
Autymn D. C. wrote:
On Mar 23, 12:48 pm, "Brian Davis" <brda...@iusb.edu> wrote:
On Mar 23, 2:22 pm, Uncle Al <Uncle...@hate.spam.net> wrote:
"Autymn D. C." wrote...
Idiot troll.
Actually, it's been bugging us for a while over in rasfs (trimmed).=
My
general belief is that the reponses aren't intelligent enough for a
troll, and it's likely an Eliza-clone. Everybody sing with me, "And
you and me, are free to be, content-free..."
Correction: Your belief isn't intelligent yenoh for trollspotting, n=
or
can it spot intelligent inputs and corrections when they strike your
client.
but it's intelligent enough to spell properly. unlike you.
I spell properly, cretin. The world does not. Learn English, Latin,
and H=E8llenic or shut up.
No results found for "yenoh". Did you mean "ye noh" or "Yonoh"?
http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=3Dyenoh
If you're trying to spell "enough", then spell it. If this
is some rather abstruse and obscure word that didn't make
it into dictionary.com, that's fine too, and there is awww.yenoh.com, whi=
ch
You need to do a reverse and cross lookup on dictionary.com. But you
guessd the leed.
As for Hellenic or H=E8llenic -- ancient Greece fell
long ago. However, one could make a case for spelling
it in Greek characters. (I'd do so but my editor's
being a fusspot.)
What? One can't "spelling" anything.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greece
The Anglicized form is "Ellinik=ED Dhimokrat=EDa". This makes
me wonder if the term "republic" should only be used
for democratically-elected representatives, but that's a
side tangent.
Ditto for Rome.
There is no Anglicised form. The Latinised make is H=E8llenice
Democratia. And don't use the k for a c sound; that's a Duutish
idiosey.
-Aut
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| User: "Bill Snyder" |
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24 Mar 2007 10:42:51 PM |
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On 24 Mar 2007 20:39:24 -0700, "Autymn D. C." <lysdexia@sbcglobal.net>
wrote:
On Mar 23, 8:10 pm, jim beam <spamvor...@bad.example.net> wrote:
Autymn D. C. wrote:
On Mar 23, 12:48 pm, "Brian Davis" <brda...@iusb.edu> wrote:
On Mar 23, 2:22 pm, Uncle Al <Uncle...@hate.spam.net> wrote:
"Autymn D. C." wrote...
Idiot troll.
Actually, it's been bugging us for a while over in rasfs (trimmed). My
general belief is that the reponses aren't intelligent enough for a
troll, and it's likely an Eliza-clone. Everybody sing with me, "And
you and me, are free to be, content-free..."
Correction: Your belief isn't intelligent yenoh for trollspotting, nor
can it spot intelligent inputs and corrections when they strike your
client.
but it's intelligent enough to spell properly. unlike you.
I spell properly, cretin. The world does not. Learn English, Latin,
and Hèllenic or shut up.
Dream on, loon.
--
Bill Snyder [This space unintentionally left blank.]
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| User: "Mark Thorson" |
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23 Mar 2007 03:39:54 PM |
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Uncle Al wrote:
Idiot troll.
Shitanium, unobtainium, cavorite, jellium, cosmium, and phlogiston.
What? No Illudium Phosdex, "the shaving cream atom"?
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| User: "David Bostwick" |
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23 Mar 2007 04:18:35 PM |
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In article <46043B1A.AD775C4D@sonic.net>, Mark Thorson <nospam@sonic.net> wrote:
Uncle Al wrote:
Idiot troll.
Shitanium, unobtainium, cavorite, jellium, cosmium, and phlogiston.
What? No Illudium Phosdex, "the shaving cream atom"?
Illudium Pu 36 is a better member of the family.
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| User: "Earle Jones" |
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31 Mar 2007 12:09:24 AM |
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In article <1174665453.479695.106460@b75g2000hsg.googlegroups.com>,
"Autymn D. C." <lysdexia@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
Pick at most six. Here are mine: rhenium, tin, bismuth, caesium,
thorium, beryllium.
-Aut
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"Pious Jews have a category of questions that can harmlessly be
allowed to go without an answer until the Messiah comes. I suspect
that this is one of them."
--Joseph C. Fineman
earle
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| User: "A.G.McDowell" |
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01 Apr 2007 01:05:05 AM |
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In article <earle.jones-7B732B.22092430032007@netnews.comcast.net>,
Earle Jones <earle.jones@comcast.net> writes
(actual message trimmed)
*
"Pious Jews have a category of questions that can harmlessly be
allowed to go without an answer until the Messiah comes. I suspect
that this is one of them."
--Joseph C. Fineman
While I am sure the question was carefully considered, I believe that,
as long as people are prepared to stake either their reputation or their
money on a guess, the category described above contains no questions of
finite length.
It's a bit like the connection between the last four digits of the
telephone number of the Cirencester Abattoir and my date of birth. As
far as I know, there wasn't one up to now, but if I tell you their sum
is 2660 mod 10000 then I have created a connection: if you know one, you
can work out the other.
(This being usenet, somebody out there is going to be googling for
Abattoirs and for all I know coming up with a completely weird date of
birth: FWIW, my source is the printed Thompson's directory for Swindon
2006-7. It so happens that Abattoir comes first in the list I looked at
- and I happen to like Cirencester).
--
A.G.McDowell
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24 Mar 2007 07:40:32 AM |
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In article <1174665453.479695.106460@b75g2000hsg.googlegroups.com>,
Autymn D. C. <lysdexia@sbcglobal.net> writes
Pick at most six. Here are mine: rhenium, tin, bismuth, caesium,
thorium, beryllium.
-Aut
As an amateur gardener, I get three by reflex action: Nitrogen,
Phosphorous, and Potassium. I guess I should add Hydrogen, Carbon, and
Oxygen to get six.
ObSF: the short-short $1.98, by Arthur Porges, in which a man earns a
favour from a (very small) god, anything he likes up to the value of
$1.98.
(I read it in the very good compilation: 100 Great Fantasy Short Short
Stories").
Spoiler 1
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The last paragraph of the story is
The clipping itself, a mere filler, read: "At present prices, the value
of the chemical elements which make up the human body is only $1.98."
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| User: "Salmon Egg" |
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23 Mar 2007 05:44:19 PM |
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On 3/23/07 8:57 AM, in article
1174665453.479695.106460@b75g2000hsg.googlegroups.com, "Autymn D. C."
<lysdexia@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
Pick at most six. Here are mine: rhenium, tin, bismuth, caesium,
thorium, beryllium.
-Aut
This proves that stupid questions do indeed exist.
Bill
-- Fermez le Bush--about two years to go.
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| User: "Madalch" |
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23 Mar 2007 06:53:08 PM |
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On Mar 23, 3:44 pm, Salmon Egg <salmon...@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
On 3/23/07 8:57 AM, in article
1174665453.479695.106...@b75g2000hsg.googlegroups.com, "Autymn D. C."
<lysde...@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
Pick at most six. Here are mine: rhenium, tin, bismuth, caesium,
thorium, beryllium.
-Aut
This proves that stupid questions do indeed exist.
Yes, but it's far better than most of his posts, so why not humour
him?
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| User: "Autymn D. C." |
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23 Mar 2007 09:48:08 PM |
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On Mar 23, 4:53 pm, "Madalch" <tress...@gmail.com> wrote:
On Mar 23, 3:44 pm, Salmon Egg <salmon...@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
On 3/23/07 8:57 AM, in article
1174665453.479695.106...@b75g2000hsg.googlegroups.com, "Autymn D. C."
<lysde...@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
Pick at most six. Here are mine: rhenium, tin, bismuth, caesium,
thorium, beryllium.
This proves that stupid questions do indeed exist.
You can't prove a thing.
Yes, but it's far better than most of his posts, so why not humour
mest
humor
him?
There is no him, blind illiterate cretin.
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| User: "tadchem" |
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23 Mar 2007 08:39:34 PM |
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On Mar 23, 10:57 am, "Autymn D. C." <lysde...@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
Pick at most six. Here are mine: rhenium, tin, bismuth, caesium,
thorium, beryllium.
-Aut
Muonium, positronium, protonium, antihydrogen, phlogiston, and
polywater (even though it is a chemical compound and not simply an
element - it outranks orgone in my list). I am also partial to
electron holes.
Tom Davidson
Richmond, VA
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| User: "WizWom" |
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23 Mar 2007 05:38:44 PM |
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On Mar 23, 10:57 am, "Autymn D. C." <lysde...@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
Pick at most six. Here are mine: rhenium, tin, bismuth, caesium,
thorium, beryllium.
Atomic numbers 123 to 128, I suppose ;-)
No, I'm being flippand: Osmium, Lanthanum, Freon, Hydrogen, Iron, and
Lawrencium.
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| User: "Autymn D. C." |
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23 Mar 2007 09:45:59 PM |
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On Mar 23, 3:38 pm, "WizWom" <wiz...@gmail.com> wrote:
On Mar 23, 10:57 am, "Autymn D. C." <lysde...@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
Pick at most six. Here are mine: rhenium, tin, bismuth, caesium,
thorium, beryllium.
Atomic numbers 123 to 128, I suppose ;-)
No, I'm being flippand: Osmium, Lanthanum, Freon, Hydrogen, Iron, and
Lawrencium.
Where is this freon?
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| User: "WizWom" |
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29 Mar 2007 11:19:20 PM |
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On Mar 23, 9:45 pm, "Autymn D. C." <lysde...@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
On Mar 23, 3:38 pm, "WizWom" <wiz...@gmail.com> wrote:
No, I'm being flippand: Osmium, Lanthanum, Freon, Hydrogen, Iron, and
Lawrencium.
Where is this freon?
Meant flourine - the "special" bit in freon and teflon and all sorts
of fun things.
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| User: "The Ghost In The Machine" |
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30 Mar 2007 12:06:59 AM |
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In sci.physics, WizWom
<wizwom@gmail.com>
wrote
on 29 Mar 2007 21:19:20 -0700
<1175228360.018389.239990@p15g2000hsd.googlegroups.com>:
On Mar 23, 9:45 pm, "Autymn D. C." <lysde...@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
On Mar 23, 3:38 pm, "WizWom" <wiz...@gmail.com> wrote:
No, I'm being flippand: Osmium, Lanthanum, Freon, Hydrogen, Iron, and
Lawrencium.
Where is this freon?
Meant flourine - the "special" bit in freon and teflon and all sorts
of fun things.
That must be the special substance added to a grinding
wheel while feeding it with grain; the results can then
be combined with some other stuff to make bread...
:-)
As for fluorine being "fun"...apart from the small amount
one might get in one's toothpaste and the aforementioned
teflon and freon, and the extremely small traces in our
atmosphere, I for one don't see myself wanting to even
come close to things such as hydrofluoric acid...
--
#191,
Conventional memory has to be one of the most UNconventional
architectures I've seen in a computer system.
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Posted via a free Usenet account from http://www.teranews.com
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23 Mar 2007 11:07:31 AM |
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On Mar 23, 11:57 am, "Autymn D. C." <lysde...@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
Pick at most six. Here are mine: rhenium, tin, bismuth, caesium,
thorium, beryllium.
-Aut
As the universe expands a certain relation of element to element
occurs, causing the relative masses element to element. And the best
possible combination as the art is my choice.
I start with a little quanta of choice and the fifth element. And
make a sequence.
Causing my little own chart of the nuclides. So six quanta can cause
the set, a whole chartlet.
So Hydrogen and i forget five.
H1+E5
H1_E5-1c
H1-E5-2c
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where c is an atomic mass unit
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| User: "boson boss" |
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23 Mar 2007 05:40:35 PM |
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On Mar 23, 4:57 pm, "Autymn D. C." <lysde...@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
Pick at most six. Here are mine: rhenium, tin, bismuth, caesium,
thorium, beryllium.
-Aut
Nitro, Iron, Carbon, Rb, Neon, Germanium.
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| User: "Bill Penrose" |
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23 Mar 2007 10:42:30 PM |
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On Mar 23, 7:57 am, "Autymn D. C." <lysde...@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
Pick at most six. Here are mine: rhenium, tin, bismuth, caesium,
thorium, beryllium.
Lutetium.
Not only is the name cool, but like me, it is the heaviest of the rare
earths.
Dangerous Bill
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24 Mar 2007 02:26:59 AM |
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On Mar 23, 8:57 am, "Autymn D. C." <lysde...@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
Pick at most six. Here are mine: rhenium, tin, bismuth, caesium,
thorium, beryllium.
Interesting choices. Mine:
Ag
Os
Ir
Pt
Au
(money metals)
I can't decide on a sixth; I read that Ho has "unusual magnetic
properties" but can't seem to find details.
I also vaguely remember some claims that either Tc or As would make
wonderfully light, strong steel alloys except for the minor half-life
issue.
Just kidding. Favorite elements are those that I can eat (C, H, O,
N). Traces don't count. ;>)
Mark L. Fergerson
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| User: "Thomas Womack" |
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24 Mar 2007 07:01:39 AM |
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In article <1174721219.510978.206920@n59g2000hsh.googlegroups.com>,
nunya@bid.nes <Alien8752@gmail.com> wrote:
On Mar 23, 8:57 am, "Autymn D. C." <lysde...@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
Pick at most six. Here are mine: rhenium, tin, bismuth, caesium,
thorium, beryllium.
I also vaguely remember some claims that either Tc or As would make
wonderfully light, strong steel alloys except for the minor half-life
issue.
Technetium is an implausibly good corrosion inhibitor; you can keep
normal steel in 50-micromolar pertechnetate solution for twenty years
and it doesn't rust.
I like scandium, gallium, and most of the middle row of the transition
elements, particularly the noble ones; every so often I check to see
if anyone has made the Doc Smith superalloys analogous to steels but
based on ruthenium and niobium rather than iron and vanadium, and if
they have Doc Smith super-properties. I have samples of gallium,
tantalum, molybdenum and diamond on my mantlepiece; scandium's a bit
expensive and the rare earths aren't really quite air-stable enough
for me to want to have lumps of them around the house.
I work in crystallography, where almost all the heavy metals turn up
at some stage thanks to despairing 'soak the protein crystal in
solutions of hexammineeverything and see if it binds' experiments, and
almost all the light metals turn up for actual biological reasons,
except scandium and gallium. Looking at an ion channel full of
thallium makes it very clear why the stuff is so toxic.
Tom
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| Title: Re: Hai, what are your favorite elements? |
24 Mar 2007 04:15:15 PM |
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On Mar 24, 5:01 am, Thomas Womack <twom...@chiark.greenend.org.uk>
wrote:
In article <1174721219.510978.206...@n59g2000hsh.googlegroups.com>,
Technetium is an implausibly good corrosion inhibitor; you can keep
normal steel in 50-micromolar pertechnetate solution for twenty years
and it doesn't rust.
Fascinating; its 97 and 99 isotopes actually have usable halflives
(1ky, 5810^5y). Know if anybody actually ever made anything using it?
I recently discovered the old Bomarc ramjet engines were made with a
Hafnium alloy.
every so often I check to see
if anyone has made the Doc Smith superalloys analogous to steels but
based on ruthenium and niobium rather than iron and vanadium, and if
they have Doc Smith super-properties.
Ah, yes, Leybyrdite and Dureum.
I suspect he picked them for his superalloys knowing they were so
rare
nobody'd be able to call him on their alleged properties for a very
long time. ;>)
I have samples of gallium,
tantalum, molybdenum and diamond on my mantlepiece; scandium's a bit
expensive and the rare earths aren't really quite air-stable enough
for me to want to have lumps of them around the house.
I have several samples of rare-earth "alloys" lying around; they're
also known as "lighter flints".
Mark L. Fergerson
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| User: "Divij Rao" |
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| Title: Re: Hai, what are your favorite elements? |
24 Mar 2007 08:01:08 AM |
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my favourite are:
Osmium
Cesium
Uranium
Aurum
Francium
Radium
All have special properties... a good interface to share ideas.... any
comment on these selections will be appreciated.
i and Autymn still await this "freon". what is it?
thanx
Regards,
Divij
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