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One of my stupidest but proudest is ;

Jumping off a 35 metre rock cliff ( I was 10 at the time) plummeting into the sea beneath ..

and went for seconds .

When I was that age I jumped off a cliff high enough that one of my eardrums burst. I had to have a piece of skin from behind my ear grafted onto it.

I think I win.

it doesnt?

 

bah... they work fine for grounding out the tube in your tv when you need to fix it...

Lets just say my body hit the ground quite a while before the screwdriver.

Figuring a screwdriver has plenty of insulation to draw tesla coil arcs safely.

I have seen these markers and I was wondering if anybody knew the chemicals used in making them. The paper that goes with the markers is coated in some type of solution that will turn the clear ink in the markers the corrisponding color but each marker turns the paper a different color.

Anybody know how they make them?

Make sure it contains lots of high voltage and explosions.

I'm trying to learn japanese.

I did the same thing but I put it in a rod shaped mold for an electrode in electroplating.

30V will NOT spark through the air without preionization. However, Assuming you can supply enough current, if the wires come close enough together to touch the tips will heat up enough to ionize the air. The wires can then be pulled back creating an arc between the wires. This works much better with carbon though.

I disagree. Although ionization CAN happen first it does not always. It completely depends on the conditions. If you have two spherical electrodes the air will ionize the same time the spark forms because the spheres reduce corona keeping the air from becoming ionized. In triggered spark gaps a higher voltage spark will ionize the air allowing a lower voltage discharge across the gap.

Also, a spark IS ionized air (plasma).

ET has a linux version. And its FREE.

what? stimulants for ADD? i thought that stimulants caused[/i'] ADD-like symptoms, as they inhibit your brains ability to filter-out uninportant stimuli, and so make it harder to concentrate on the relavant stimulus?

They have the opposite effect on people with ADD.

What are everybody's views on stimulants (such as Ritalin and Adderall, but not limited to) prescribed for AD/HD?

I few topics I'm interested in:

• Stimulants prescribed for school-age children
  
• Teachers pushing stimulants on students
  
• Stimulants prescribed for adult ADD
  

Green Day Rocks!!

Ill second that,

Good Charlotte And Avril Lavigne Is The Best!!!

but not that.

I can handle B.O. or potential death, but certainly not both at the same time!

it's not expensive!

Splitting salt or buying sodium? I was referring to the former.

Melting the salt is the easy part (use a plumbers torch and a brick), the hard part is getting metallic sodium. At those temperatures the sodium will react with the air almost instantly. You would have to spray the reaction with an inert gas which would make direct heating impossible. You would thus have to heat from the underside which would be much more complicated and require more heat to overcome the losses.

Electrolysis of NaCl is possible but if you want it to work it wont be cheap. You might as well just buy sodium off ebay.

Informative? On what?

 

WHERE IS MY PHOSPHORUS????????????

come on man. and seriously' date=' people should like phosphorus[/quote']

 

I am only considering elements I have personal experience with though. I don't yet have any in my collection.

How about Kryptonite (sp?) from Superman?

 

Is there really such an element?

Thats a fictional compound but not element.

 

The best conductivity of any metal' date=' shallowes skin depth, heavy, cold, shiny, and won't leave your hands tasting like copper when handled.[/quote']

 

And its not that expensive either in comparison to metals such as platinum and gold.

Yes, bismuth is rather nice too. It also has a lot of fun qualities such as diamagnetism. Is strontium really that much better than lithium? Lithium is already ahead just for having a better name.

not really all that scary. i am probably the only one in the school with enough testicular fortitude to go through with it. then again, i wouldn't warn them.

I'm really glad you live in Indiana.

You don't need the negative outputs, just the positive and ground. Also, if you see a wire thats the same color as another then they are the same output. There is only one 5+ output it's just split into multiple wires. You can use one and ignore the rest.

Yea but I still think copper pwns platinum. Osmium looks nice but I dont have any...

My favorite changes from day to day.

My current favorite is copper because you can plate it on to everything. I also think its one of the most attractive elements. Bismuth and gallium are also fun.

Mercury is not expensive. Its actually pretty cheap and a lot of people would pay you to take it from them.