“They saw their injured country's woe;
The flaming town, the wasted field;
Then rushed to meet the insulting foe;
They took the spear, - but left the shield.”
―Philip Freneau
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And by a prudent flight and cunning save A life which valour could not, from the grave. A better buckler I can soon regain, But who can get another life again?
Archilochus
I'm glad we had that concept cleared up. As a chemist myself I've struggled with it up to now. Which explains why my fluorine (or 'flourine' as some still prefer to call it!) experiments always go so wrong. Well, that and my leaking Viton O-rings!
Nearly lost an eye to all that and definitely a little finger...
I bet Henry Moissan didn't have those problems, right? ;-)
Ah, they should have hired you to investigate the Challenger disaster... 'O'-rings...
DuPont scientists developed Viton o-rings in the late 1950s. Viton is a brand name for a synthetic rubber called fluoropolymer elastomer (FKM)
He didn't have Viton o rings, but... he probably wished he had had some.
Didn't his work contribute to his death (Wikipedia):
Death Moissan died suddenly in Paris in February 1907, shortly after his return from receiving the Nobel Prize in Stockholm.[9] His death was attributed to an acute case of appendicitis, however, there is speculation that repeated exposure to fluorine and carbon monoxide also contributed to his death.
That's because even you are influenced by the 'culture of perceived danger'
Here in the EU (something I once supported) nitric acid is now banned (except for licensees, of course). Although 2 % is still legal (I could brush my teeth with 2 %, easy). Search Amasatan for nitric acid and it only returns results for citric acid...
Sulphuric acid is banned to prevent 'honour acid attacks'.
Now, when are they going to ban these pesky potato peelers, can't be careful enough in a 'free society', now can yee?
No, people "need" the entire Maslow pyramid, and not just the pyramid's base.... "safety". Safety is what Byung-chul Han would call "The Bare Life".... the Socratic "Unexamined Life that is not worth living".
People who hate the US 2nd amendment cry for "safety" every time a gun causes harm. But it has many ways of being used, not all harmful.
I have a friend who carries "belt knives" everyone he goes. He tells me he doesn't want to have to search for a weapon (like a pencil) when the moment of "need" arises...
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I'm glad we had that concept cleared up. As a chemist myself I've struggled with it up to now. Which explains why my fluorine (or 'flourine' as some still prefer to call it!) experiments always go so wrong. Well, that and my leaking Viton O-rings!
Nearly lost an eye to all that and definitely a little finger...
I bet Henry Moissan didn't have those problems, right? ;-)
Ah, they should have hired you to investigate the Challenger disaster... 'O'-rings...
DuPont scientists developed Viton o-rings in the late 1950s. Viton is a brand name for a synthetic rubber called fluoropolymer elastomer (FKM)
He didn't have Viton o rings, but... he probably wished he had had some.
Didn't his work contribute to his death (Wikipedia):
Death
Moissan died suddenly in Paris in February 1907, shortly after his return from receiving the Nobel Prize in Stockholm.[9] His death was attributed to an acute case of appendicitis, however, there is speculation that repeated exposure to fluorine and carbon monoxide also contributed to his death.
Chemistry sounds like a dangerous profession. Marie Curie, we barely knew ye!
No, I doubt Moissan's death was related to fluorine but several other chemists did suffer severe injuries from.
Cehimty cen afect une's aabilitie to spell, thouhg. But oviouslu thqa deos nut affict me ither.
https://youtu.be/TLOFaWdPxB0?si=5CIzLJRO-mo4O5po : the Caesium Fluorine video.
I was anticipating an explosion... not "light".
Good thing that the mind fills the gaps and decodes the mispellings... who needs vowels anyway?
That's because even you are influenced by the 'culture of perceived danger'
Here in the EU (something I once supported) nitric acid is now banned (except for licensees, of course). Although 2 % is still legal (I could brush my teeth with 2 %, easy). Search Amasatan for nitric acid and it only returns results for citric acid...
Sulphuric acid is banned to prevent 'honour acid attacks'.
Now, when are they going to ban these pesky potato peelers, can't be careful enough in a 'free society', now can yee?
Because... "people need safety". ;-p
No, people "need" the entire Maslow pyramid, and not just the pyramid's base.... "safety". Safety is what Byung-chul Han would call "The Bare Life".... the Socratic "Unexamined Life that is not worth living".
People who hate the US 2nd amendment cry for "safety" every time a gun causes harm. But it has many ways of being used, not all harmful.
I have a friend who carries "belt knives" everyone he goes. He tells me he doesn't want to have to search for a weapon (like a pencil) when the moment of "need" arises...
The "fear" is largely in the lethality (ie- TNT and fully-auto assault rifles). And yet there are "gaps" (flame throwers largely unregulated)
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