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Me too! No argument on the original post. To expand a bit, I also don't like it when science is confused with technology, or scientists are confused with engineers. And while I am at it, science is a branch of natural philosophy, that doesn't mean all of natural philosophy is science.

I'd have to go with weolen on this one YT, the energies for the path you are proposing aren't as good as the Al2O3 which would probably form before the NaCl dissociated.

Ya. YT's take is the more likely. For reference a bronze is any alloy of copper. Sodium bronze is NaCu although all species in the form: NaXCu, where X is another metal is generaly refered to as a sodium bronze.

Atmospheric pressure will decrease by about .036 PSI for each 1000 feet of elevation. In some process systems, it may be necessary to know if an indicated pressure includes or excludes atmospheric pressure. To distinguish this, two specific pressure units are used - pounds per square inch gage, or PSIG, and pounds per square inch absolute, or PSIA. PSIG is reference to atmospheric pressure and the measurement instrument will indicate zero when not connected to the process pressure, with the sensing element exposed to atmospheric pressure. PSIA is referenced to absolute zero. Absolute zero is the pressure measurement when all the pressure exerted by the atmosphere has been removed. A pressure measuring instrument designed to indicate PSIA will read 14.696 pounds per square inch at sea level, when it is not connected to process pressure, and the sensing element is exposed to atmospheric pressure.

Look at the electromotive series. H2O bonds break before CO3.

My guess it would be a crude Sodium Bronze.

Thanks for a nice set of links! The relationship between lighning and fusion is a tenuous one to be sure but evocative nevertheless.

A teratogen is an agent that can cause malformations of an embryo or fetus. Ethanol for example, can cause fetal alcohol syndrome

If you want to save power, go for compact fluorescents. the LED's don't save that much elecricity, but they do last much, much longer.

I put an LED white spotlight up on my eves, and yes they ship a lot of heat when they run.

Found this on heavy water: also: and: finaly: All from here: http://www.isb.vt.edu/brarg/brasym96/kushner96.htm

It works but you don't get a good deposit. Once the surface iron is used up, plating stops. The silver potasium-cyanide bath puts on a nice hard level deposit at about 0.9V. Ideal for post-plate buffing.

Well I did. You going to read them and comment?

The Canadian Coalition for Nuclear Responsibility (the source of your links) is a rabid anti-nuke group who seem primarily concerned that Canadian uranium and tritium has found it's way into U.S. weapons. They engage in the usual FUD of quoting numbers out of context, and quoting their officers as experts. No one is suggesting that tritium is not a hazmat. However standards and practices that were in force over twenty-five years ago, have since been tightened. This same group is now protesting that tritium recovered form Ontario Hydro's reactors may wind-up in the hands of the U.S. military. Tritium is used in luminous watches, self-powered signs and in the new BetaBattery technology. It's used as a tracer in a number of medical and industrial applications, and today sells for about $3000USD/oz. It's unlikely at those prices that anyone will be cavalier about releasing into the environment

yes

I agree, it's the usual FUD from the anti-nuke crowd.

YT2095 - No I wasn't kidding, that's what they call it.

Right, process of "fine tuning" is called Dial-A-Yield !

The Teller-Ulam configuration makes use of lithium deuteride enriched in the Li-6 isotope. Perhaps that's what you are thinking of.

It is used as a moderator in a type of breeder reactor used to transmute uranium into weapons grade isotopes or into isotopes of plutonium

How big was this rock?

Could also have been Autunite (hydrated calcium uranyl phosphate),a yellow - greenish fluorescent mineral, it will glow in the dark for a while after soaking up some light. Varnished samples were popular mineral specimens at the turn of the century.

What all of these measures are of course, is a riff on the practice of Shunning sometimes called Disfellowshipping; a very effective form of punnishment.

The World Health Organization agrees that DU is not a great health risk. Its 2003 fact sheet on the topic declares that "because DU is only weakly radioactive, very large amounts of dust (on the order of grams) would have to be inhaled for the additional risk of lung cancer to be detectable in an exposed group. Risks for other radiation-induced cancers, including leukaemia, are considered to be very much lower than for lung cancer." Another WHO report found, "The radiological hazard is likely to be very small. No increase of leukemia or other cancers has been established following exposure to uranium or DU." http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs257/en/ http://www.who.int/ionizing_radiation/pub_meet/Depluranium4.pdf

The Treaty labels them rogue, and therefor subject to sanctions. India was a customer of Canadian nuclear technology, after they tested we were forced under the terms of the treaty (which we are a signatory) to cut them off. Of course they just stated building their own reactors built on the CANDU design and fueled them with uranium from the U.S.S.R. Now outside the NPT they are not part of the nuclear disarmament dialog and serve as an excuse to those other states (some with legitimate security concerns of their own) that wish to arm themselves with nukes.