Oh. Metallurgic joke. Ah-haha!
Love isn't brains, children, it's blood, blood screaming inside you to work its will.
Spike ,'Sleeper'
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.
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.
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.
Tom Scola - Mar 12, 2008 9:40:51 am PDT #4559 of 10001
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
The air vent that is blowing directly down on my cube seriously needs to stop now.
Emily - Mar 12, 2008 9:43:49 am PDT #4560 of 10001
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola
Like iron ore is some compound containing iron that you have to chemically extract the iron from.
Precisely. Which is why the Iron Age (around 1200 BC) was even later than the Bronze Age, ALTHOUGH there was some free meteoric iron, which is why some Egyptians had iron daggers around 3000 BC which were known as "Daggers from Heaven." Apparently.
So yes, metals found free as -t described include gold, copper, tin, silver, and meteoric iron, versus ores, which, er,
Ore minerals are generally oxides, sulfides, silicates, or "native" metals (such as native copper) that are not commonly concentrated in the Earth's crust or "noble" metals (not usually forming compounds) such as gold. The ores must be processed to extract the metals of interest from the waste rock and from the ore minerals.
says Wikipedia. Honestly, I know nothing, but the little bit I do know seems cool! I always thought "iron ore" meant, like, there was a vein of pure iron sort of threading through the ground, but it actually means some kind of oxide mixed with "gangue" -- rock, clay, sand -- from which you have to gradually and with some difficulty extract first the ore and THEN the iron!
Laura - Mar 12, 2008 9:44:15 am PDT #4561 of 10001
Our wings are not tired.
I should stop reading news and get back to work. But, Mary Ann is a stoner. [link] eta: she looks damn good for 69 - must be the pot