I knew metals were easy.
Bar maid! Bring me stronger ale! And some plump, succulent babies to eat!
Olaf the Troll ,'Showtime'
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.
Laura - Mar 12, 2008 9:26:02 am PDT #4549 of 10001
Our wings are not tired.
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.
Susan W. - Mar 12, 2008 9:37:23 am PDT #4556 of 10001
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
Susan, that's a nice, elegant but workmanlike sword.
It's a standard French infantry officer's sword from 1803 or so. (My character is English, but he's also not its first owner.) And I liked it for the exact reason you describe--it's graceful and elegant-looking without being overly showy or otherwise impractical.
Jesse - Mar 12, 2008 9:38:02 am PDT #4557 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
You guys are so smaht!
Meanwhile, my boss just asked if I'm secretly getting married this weekend, because my nails are so fancy.
Laura - Mar 12, 2008 9:40:03 am PDT #4558 of 10001
Our wings are not tired.
You would invite us if you were getting married, right?
My mom is going to freak - Kevorkian Plans Congressional Run [link] She thinks he is the devil on earth.