But brass has the advantage that you can make French horns out of it....
Not to mention the optimist's credo: I zinc I can, I zinc I can.
Get up...get up, you stupid piece of... What did you do that for? What's wrong with you? Didn't you hear a word he said? All of you! You think there's someone just going to drop money on you?! Money they could use?! Well, there ain't people like that. There's just people like me.
Jayne ,'Jaynestown'
Natter 57 Varieties
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Fred Pete - Mar 12, 2008 9:02:20 am PDT #4542 of 10001
Ann, that's a ferret.
Emily - Mar 12, 2008 9:09:35 am PDT #4543 of 10001
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola
But see bronze has the advantage that you make it out of metals which are found free in nature, which, it turns out, is pretty rare for metals, and you know why? Do ya? Do ya?
Er, sorry. I get excited about new stuff.
Miracleman - Mar 12, 2008 9:11:12 am PDT #4544 of 10001
No, I don't think I will - me, quoting Captain Steve Rogers, to all of 2020
But see bronze has the advantage that you make it out of metals which are found free in nature, which, it turns out, is pretty rare for metals, and you know why? Do ya? Do ya?
No, actually. Why?
hippocampus - Mar 12, 2008 9:16:39 am PDT #4545 of 10001
not your mom's socks.
I now have to go live in a place where random names of things are so melodic.
not to mention that almost any placename in NZ that starts with a WH is actually pronounced with a F... which makes Whakatane, Whakaihuwaka, Whakatu, and Wharengei very fun to say.
shrift - Mar 12, 2008 9:22:08 am PDT #4546 of 10001
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
Coffee gods are smiling upon me today. Caribou is having a $2.00 off sale on coffee beans and the sun is shining.
Emily - Mar 12, 2008 9:23:43 am PDT #4547 of 10001
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola
Because metals are elements that easily give up their electrons, so they usually occur in combination with others!
Beverly - Mar 12, 2008 9:24:40 am PDT #4548 of 10001
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
Yes, why?
Susan, that's a nice, elegant but workmanlike sword. I was expecting maybe something like a Spanish rapier. Although I do admire the workmanship, I've never been able to get into the elaborate Montoya-style basket hilt stuff. It just seems like spun-sugar candy to me. Of course my blade of choice, as I've said, is hardly better than an unshaped ingot of unrefined metal.
Laura - Mar 12, 2008 9:26:02 am PDT #4549 of 10001
Our wings are not tired.
I knew metals were easy.
Beverly - Mar 12, 2008 9:27:20 am PDT #4550 of 10001
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
Emily, are you saying that somebody has to know what they're looking for, find miniscule amounts of it in ordinary rock, and then have to chip and hack the ore from rock and smelt to free and purify it before one can fashion things from the metal?
But still--found naturally, as opposed to combined artificially with other things to make alloys, right?
Polter-Cow - Mar 12, 2008 9:27:51 am PDT #4551 of 10001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Because metals are elements that easily give up their electrons, so they usually occur in combination with others!
Copper was walking down the street one day when he bumped into Zinc.
"Oh no!" cried Copper. "I think I lost an electron!"
"Are you sure?" said Zinc.
Copper replied, "Yeah, I'm positive!"