Re: R: Re: VLF: Chemistry...

[Chris Wilson <dead.fets@gmail.com>]

Hello Paul,

I'll  read that tonight, thanks for the link. If the neighbours knew I
was  reading  this  they'd  be,  errr....  worried  ;) They think I am
"suspect" with the aerials and electronics, already.

Wednesday, March 6, 2019, 1:15:33 PM, you wrote:


> I too was destined for a career in chemistry.  Pocket money
> was spent at the chemist shop (in those days a small boy
> could buy things like conc acids and phenol) and at the gardening
> shop on bags of things like ammonium nitrate.  Eventually was
> banned from the house due to too many bangs and smells.

> By age 11 I had moved more towards electronics so was allowed in
> the house again, at least for a while until I discovered high
> voltages, then it was back to the shed for me.

> Eventually interesting in chemistry waned and was finally
> killed off by a martinet chemistry master at school.

> The VLF angle?  My favourite way to make hydrogen was
> Al and NaOH.   A shame to waste valuable helium in a
> antenna balloon.

> Want a really really good read?  Try

>   http://www.sciencemadness.org/library/books/ignition.pdf

> You won't be able to put it down until finished.
> --
> Paul Nicholson
> --





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Best regards,
 Chris                            mailto:dead.fets@gmail.com