Coffee gods are smiling upon me today. Caribou is having a $2.00 off sale on coffee beans and the sun is shining.
Darn your sinister attraction!
Buffybot ,'Dirty Girls'
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.
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
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!"
Beverly - Mar 12, 2008 9:29:05 am PDT #4552 of 10001
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
Oh. Metallurgic joke. Ah-haha!
Kathy A - Mar 12, 2008 9:29:22 am PDT #4553 of 10001
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
For anyone who missed last night's Daily Show, Samantha Bee has a statement to make, with her husband at her side.
-t - Mar 12, 2008 9:34:28 am PDT #4554 of 10001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
It sounds like you can find copper and tin as elemental copper and tin rather than as compounds that contain them. Like iron ore is some compound containing iron that you have to chemically extract the iron from.
Madly in love with Emily right now. And very fond of Polter-Cow.
Pix - Mar 12, 2008 9:35:01 am PDT #4555 of 10001
The status is NOT quo.
Bwah! Kathy, thank you for the link. That is priceless.