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- From: moroney@ramblr.enet.dec.com
- Newsgroups: alt.cesium
- Subject: Re: Welcome!!
- Message-ID: <1992Sep10.175310.4626@nntpd.lkg.dec.com>
- Date: 10 Sep 92 18:42:00 GMT
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- Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
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- In article <1992Sep10.053827.18402@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>, aankrom@nyx.cs.du.edu (Anthony Ankrom) writes...
- >In article <1992Sep9.200111.7058@reed.edu> nuke@reed.edu (Bill Newcomb) w
- >ites:
- >>I like thallium, which needs no radioactivity to be thoroughly nasty.
-
- Yes, nasty stuff.
-
- > It smells bad too. Or is that tellerium. Well I KNOW tellerium STINKS,
- >but does thallium???
-
- Tellurium does stink. Supposedly ingesting a small amount of tellurium oxide
- will give you a body-odor that resembles garlic, and you can't get rid of it
- for a month! Great for your social life!
-
- ObCesium: How blue is a cesium flame? Is it a strong true-blue or only
- a little bluish? I like experimenting with colored flames and cesium is
- one element that sounds rather promising but I've never got a chance to try
- it. (Thallium also sounds promising but given its toxicity I *don't* want
- to try it!)
-
- -Mike
-