We're less than 200 posts from Natter 45. Shall we start the naming process?
'Why We Fight'
Bureaucracy 3: Oh, so now you want to be part of the SOLUTION?
A thread to discuss naming threads, board policy, new thread suggestions, and anything else that has to do with board administration and maintenance. Guaranteed to include lively debate and polls. Natter discouraged, but not deleted.
Current Stompy Feet: ita, Jon B, DXMachina, P.M. Marcontell, Liese S., amych
Only if you realize that it's going to be Natter 46, not 45.
you mean I don't get to be Retro?
Retro is so Natter 44.
Natter 46: Palladium - Least Dense and Lowest Melting of the Platinum Group Metals
Natter 46: Palladium - Least Dense and Lowest Melting of the Platinum Group Metals
Actually, that would be Nickel.
Well, here's where I got that info: [link]
eta: According to that link, anyway, nickel is not in the platinum group metals.
Natter 46: Roimitalkes III of the Thracian Kingdom of Sapes - Murdered!
Natter 46: CHEMISTRY SMACKDOWN!
I'm totally in!
According to that link, anyway, nickel is not in the platinum group metals.
Huh. It ought to be. It's in the same column (which is Mendeleev's definition of a group) as palladium and platinum, and it's properties are very similar to the other two. (All three are used as hydrogenation catalysts, for example.)