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John Cuthber

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  1. That's more or less what the Conservatives said when the UK was considering introducing a minimum wage in 1999. They predicted mass unemployment, destruction of the economy, plagues of frogs etc. None of which actually happened. It's as if the political Right wing don't tell the truth about things.
  2. A hot air gun is probably the option that minimises exposure to nasties (including lead). It leaves any lead compounds in a sticky painty mess which falls on the floor and can be disposed of. An abrasive will turn it into dust which will get everywhere including your lungs. Get a fire extinguisher, just in case. I think a hot air gun is the cheapest option too. One vital point. Do Not Combine DCM And Either A Heat Gun Or A Blowtorch. You will generate phosgene. (DCM is bad, but nobody ever used it as a war gas.) It's obviously possible to add some chemical to CDM to thicken it- because the manufacturers of paint stripper do just that. But I don't know what they added.
  3. What's funny is having a town named Dildo in Canada,
  4. Are you sure you really want to say that? The alternative is that you are dishonest. Because your idea can not work.
  5. You are here and therefore you just called yourself uneducated. That my be the most salient point you have made. Anyway, if you don't like the membership of this forum, you will be delighted to know that we won't force you to stay.
  6. A virus is not a cell. And the rest of your posts are equally wrong.
  7. There's an interesting phenomenon that you may have observed. If you have a sheet of fluorescent plastic, the edges seem to glow brighter than the faces. It's due to internal reflection. The amount of light emitted is the same from all teh faces, but the smaller faces are brighter.
  8. Obviously,I should know better than to sink to this sort of thing; but it's funny.
  9. It may be closer to human hair than Michael Fabricant's "headpiece". https://www.indy100.com/politics/is-michael-fabricants-hair-real He says it's real but he's a politician and even his name means "someone who makes things up".
  10. Doh. Misread something.
  11. No, it doesn't. If you want to discuss statistics that's fine. But starting with a false statement is just going to distract people. This isn't any better.
  12. If it's a detonator, it only needs to work once. So it's a slightly different scenario. But, since it's a detonator, I'm not going to help.
  13. I wonder if there's a geometrical solution.
  14. Seawater is typically slightly alkaline, but poorly buffered. There isn't much in it (apart from salt). So adding small amounts of acids or bases to it will change its pH by a large amount. And, if your red cabbage indicator has much vinegar in it, you will overwhelm the small amount of alkali in the seawater and the mixture will end up acidic.
  15. This is about the best I can think of as a quick way to grow stuff, but it's not the same thing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemical_garden In principle, it should be possible to make a system that drives carbonated water through crushed limestone and then let that solution lose CO2/ evaporate and deposit CaCO3.
  16. The tables I posted a link to are for sucrose. Golden syrup is a mixture- it contains quite a lot of invert sugar. Also, you could measure the density; why would you want to?
  17. If I want to find a definition of it I can just Google "define physics" and it will tell me. I can do thr same with biology or chemistry. But those words are longer so, in terms of how many letters I have to type, it is actually easier for me to get a definition of physics. Incidentally,if you are going to garble a joke to make your point, you might as well include the original. “If it squirms, it's biology. If it stinks, it's chemistry. If it doesn't work, it's physics. And if you can't understand it, it's mathematics.” ― Magnus Pyke
  18. Sugar https://www.engineeringtoolbox.com/sugar-solutions-dynamic-viscosity-d_1895.html
  19. Could you explain what you mean? EDIT 15:51 I can't reply to this thread but I can point out that I didn't give you the negative rep point. Would you like to explain what your post was about?
  20. The link doesn't go anywhere useful. I haven't seen the film but I;m guessing there' some chemical in it which destroys iron. That's impossible. The film is only a story; not real life.
  21. American agencies may well break the law to get hold of data. Chinese ones don't need to because the law gives them the right to. Do you understand the difference? Wrong tense, but that doesn't detract from the Chinese govt being worse.
  22. Just as well I asked about a whole class of predictions, isn't it?
  23. Your evidence seems to be the word of a man in China who, I suspect, wasn't born at the time. And your case is something which I already said You may suspect that , but the facts don't tally. You won't often see pork in a Phall., unlike the traditional vindaloo.

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