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- From: neal@cmptrc.lonestar.org (Neal Howard)
- Subject: Re: Radio Isotope Battery?
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- Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1992 01:08:28 GMT
- Organization: CompuTrac Inc., Richardson TX
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- In article <447@blue.cis.pitt.edu> fmg@alpha.smi.med.pitt.edu (Filip Gieszczykiewicz) writes:
- >
- > P.S. Anyone selling pure Li? I'd love to see what would happen
- > if I were to flush a few ounces down the toilet ;-)
-
- Pure Li can be found at chemical lab supply places (most don't sell to
- individuals anymore due to liability problems for those folks that might blow
- themselves up or try to make drugs). Li is nothing compared to pure sodium or
- even worse, pure potassium (which explodes extremely violently upon contact
- with water... it busts the water molecules up and forms H2 gas and potassium
- hydroxide at such a high temperature that the H2 gas combusts spontaneously).
- My dad used to work for an oilfield machine shop where they had a machine that
- used pure potassium (normally stored under oil, kerosine) and water to split
- heavy steel pipes apart with.
-
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- Neal Howard '91 XLH-1200 DoD #686 CompuTrac, Inc (Richardson, TX)
- "Let us learn to dream, gentlemen, and then perhaps
- we shall learn the truth." -- August Kekule' (1890)
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