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

["marcocadeddu@tin.it" <marcocadeddu@tin.it>]

Hi Paul,

I decided to add the folder "radiochemistry" I never suspected so much feedbacks for this OT comment hi

Thanks for sharing your gardeb experiences and the link: will add to the "to read" list but it is very appealing ;-) just seen the very first pictures :-)

About the reaction between Al and NaOH I remember some years ago a guy here in the company who wanted to degrease Al stamped parts, and I suggested him a soda bath.

Unfortunately he used concentated solution just to be sure to have very clean parts.

He plunged the parts in the bath and then because it was lunch time had his break. After a couple of hours he asked me if I had take the parts ......

73, Marco

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Da: vlf0403@abelian.org
Data: 6-mar-2019 14.15
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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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