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- From: Bruce.Tindall@launchpad.unc.edu (Bruce Tindall)
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- Subject: Re: Net's Funniest Kitchen Disasters
- Message-ID: <1992Dec31.234440.25758@samba.oit.unc.edu>
- Date: 31 Dec 92 23:44:40 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec30.183458.3066@julian.uwo.ca> jdnicoll@prism.ccs.uwo.ca (James Davis Nicoll) writes:
- >bottles was labeled 'picric acid' (sp?), which is fairly unstable when
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- From the Georgia Institute of Technology Handbook of Interesting
- Substances, 6th ed. (Atlanta: Olympic(tm) Hype Press, 1991):
-
- "pickrick acid, K(subscript3)H, a major constituent of fried chicken
- and axe handles, also used as a neck rubefacient. The ion K(subscript3)
- is a cheap -- and until the FBI can catch him, free -- radical, first
- isolated at the University of Leicester."
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- Bruce "free explanations to foreigners upon request" Tindall
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