Not too much time now, but let me say three things. The surface of a cent (oops, almost said penny) is not pure copper, it is copper oxide which...
Wow, 77 miles away from Camarillo. Perhaps I will go.
omg!!! :-)
Wow, how much is this worth?
Here it is on e-bay http://www.ebay.com/itm/Royal-Thai-Mint-Celebrating-Kings-36th-B-day-1963-/320618655618
Did a quick look and found the MSDS for ProPar. The big difference is that Xylene is what is called an aromatic hydrocarbon while ProPar is an...
Since I have worked around solvents a lot, they don't bother me particularly, but if they do, I see your problem. Substances are either polar or...
If that makes you all tingly, you just might be a coin nut. Oops, isn't that another thread :-)
Don't ask, don't tell.
It's coins like this that might not be worth too much in financial terms, but is a living piece of history. Very cool.
Playing with mercury from a broken thermometer or an old relay was lots of fun as a kid. One last trivia. The term "Mad as a Hatter" originated...
:dead-horse: Talking about weights (or masses), just wanted to mention that in our jet-powered, laser-aimed age, the standard for the kilogram...
9% manganese. No metal is toxic unless it is present in the body in ionic form. I think you could drink a shot glass of mercury and just have a...
You didn't look for them? :-)
Another reason to use the metric system, a gram doesn't come in a variety of flavors! And as far as Newton's law of universal gravitation, the...
Cleaning is one of those things that happens, especially to coins that are more than 100 years old. The only person who could definitely tell...
$4,893,486.00
I doubt too many ASL's are.
It was Col. Mustard in the Dining Room with a lead pipe.
And some are better left unsaid.
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