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They also used lead in paint, as a vessel liner for wine making, for plates, pots, and pans... and don't forget as a food additive...
http://corrosion-doctors.org/Elements-Toxic/Lead-history.htm

Wrong

Transdermal absorption is minimal for inorganic lead.

also this

Tetraethyllead, which was a gasoline additive and is still used in fuels such as aviation fuel, passes through the skin; however inorganic lead found in paint, food, and most lead-containing consumer products is only minimally absorbed through the skin.

Well, except for the "electricity generation" part.

Yes, there's no evidence at all that electricity was used before the dark ages.

Basically yes, it starts oxidizing right away and releases energy in the process. Burning aluminum is just really fast oxidation.

You're right that combustion is just an oxidation reaction, you're totally wrong that all aluminum is burning. The outside layer that's exposed to air oxidizes immediately. That layer of aluminum oxide then protects all the lower layers from oxidation. That's why aluminum is generally considered rust-proof, that's why all the things around you that are made of aluminum aren't collapsing, and it's why when you want your aluminum to oxidize, like these guys, you have to make a special alloy to ensure that it happens.

And then there's plastics, and plenty of other stable chemicals who have energy stored inside them.

No, the vast majority of electricity use ends up as waste heat pretty quickly, electronics, lighting,motors, heating (obviously), cooling etc.

Yes like I said most is lost as waste heat. However you said it's all lost, and that's simply not true unless you're talking time scales beyond the lifetime of our planet. And in some cases, like aluminum production, most is lost as heat, but a quite significant 36% is actually going into the aluminum.

Sorry, sir, I changed my sig because of folks like you. It reads:

Citation War - A1: Correct, NotCited. A2: Correct, Cited. B1: Wrong, NotCited B2: Wrong, Flawed Citation.

Because all of slashdot seems to hide when I start a reply, you made me open seven tabs to compose this. But here we go.

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Section A - you vs. poster above you.

You said: "[citations needed]very badly since you seem to be the only person on the entire internet to have ever heard any of these stories."

Calling his comment some 75% correct, that makes your remark about 75% libel.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libel ...libel (for written or otherwise published words)--is the communication of a statement that makes a claim, expressly stated or implied to be factual, that may give an individual, ... a negative image. It is usually.. a requirement that this claim be false and that the publication is communicated to someone other than the person defamed...

Retire the Freudian acronym. This is a partial list of Slashdot Lawyers. If I were a lawyer I would be on my own list. I am not on that list.
http://taophoenix.paradoxservers.net/Freedom/Slashdot_Lawyers.html

Saying this is "too long - didn't read" tries to cover your fallacious post with a fallacious ad hominem attack. Your comment directly says his post was not long enough, so to discard the requested length below is a red herring.

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Section B - Poster's comment #2.

"2. Aspirin was patented well after a similar process for making Salicylic Acid on an industrial scale was. The office decided, with no precidents, that making the same chemical in pure enough form that it was safe for medicinal use was novel. When challenged on it, the USPO said they were going through a bottle a day deciding patent claims and were not about to reject rewarding this claim no matter what the law said."

"Salicylic Acid on an industrial scale"... also known as "Salicylic acid is commercially prepared from sodium salicylate, which is produced from sodium phenoxide and carbon dioxide at high pressure and temperature in the Kolbe-Schmitt reaction."
http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Salicylic_acid

(In about the mid 1840's) ...Kolbe also synthesized salicylic acid and showed its value as a preservative. The process was named Kolbe synthesis (or Kolbe-Schmitt reaction)...

Going to
http://www.corrosion-doctors.org/History/mid-nineteen.htm

Then, in 1853, French chemist Charles F. Gerhardt synthesized a primitive form of aspirin, a derivative of salicylic acid.

In 1897 Felix Hoffmann, a German chemist working at the Bayer division of I.G. Farber, discovered a better method for synthesizing the drug.

Going to
http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Aspirin#Synthesis_of_aspirin

On March 6, 1899, Bayer registered Aspirin as a trademark. However, the German company lost the right to use the trademark in many countries as the Allies seized and resold its foreign assets after World War I. The right to use "Aspirin" in the United States (along with all other Bayer trademarks) was purchased from the U.S. government by Sterling Drug in 1918. However, even before the patent for the drug expired in 1917, Bayer had been unable to stop competitors from copying the formula and using the name elsewhere, and so, with a flooded market, the public was unable to recognize "Aspirin" as coming from only one manufacturer. Sterling was subsequently unable to prevent "Aspirin" from being ruled a genericized trademark in a U.S. federal court in 1921. Sterling was ultimately acquired by Bayer in 1994, but this did not rest

Parent post is so nonsensical that it must be a troll.

Luckily, hydrogen is easy to produce. You just suck in atmospheric air, distill the contents and, voila! H2.

Let's check Wikipedia. What's the atmosphere made out of?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth's_atmosphere

Oh, nitrogen, oxygen, argon, carbon dioxide, water vapor... and 0.002% "other". Even if almost all of "other" was H2, that's a ridiculously small yield. And every other gas will liquefy at a higher temperature than the H2, so you will have to deal with everything else first and only at the end get the H2.

Let's double check. Look up "Hydrogen" in Wikipedia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrogen

Oh look, less than 1 part per million of the atmosphere is H2, and practical methods for producing H2 don't mention chilling the atmosphere.

Let's triple check. Google search for "methods hydrogen production". Here's one result:

http://www.corrosion-doctors.org/Hydrogen/Producti on.htm

Nope, still not listed.

I suppose it might be possible to use a "cold box" to produce some hydrogen, but I'll bet the electricity costs would be far higher than simply buying some hydrogen from a gas company. If you wish to claim otherwise, please provide references.

But it sure looks to me like you are just trolling, in which case: shame on you.

steveha

http://www.corrosion-doctors.org/Secondaries/li-io n-reac.htm

Yes, and infrasound can theoretically cause incontinence too, but I'm not sure what frequency works for that -- didn't the Mythbusters disprove that the infrasound incontinence myth?

It doesn't allegedly cause incontinence, it allegedly causes diarrhea, but I think it takes an enormous sound volume in air to generate the needed amplitude in the human body, perhaps more than generated in the Mythbusters episode. But apparently if you're standing on a platform vibrating at that particular frequency, it easily causes a large amplitude vibration throughout the body which causes the effect, as Mr. Samuel Clemens discovered while standing on one of Mr. Tesla's vibrating platforms:

http://www.corrosion-doctors.org/Biographies/Tesla Bio-2.htm
http://www.rastko.org.yu/istorija/tesla/oniell-tes la.html

You are apparently forgetting that rust is more easily applied onsite than it is to build-in at the shop.

Maybe you are thinking of weathering steel?

[...] a very poorly designed reactor, a shutdown of the insufficient safety systems, and a government that didn't care about its people. None of those conditions exists in US nuclear power plants.

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Actually, it's less efficient than H2O, as the thermal conductivity and thermal capacity is considerably worse in anti-freeze. The only reason to use it is in sub-zero chillers.

I think people use anti-freeze for the anti-corrosive (and a lack of understanding of its thermal properties), but there are better solutions for anti-corrosion. I use 15% Hy-perlube in my system - and in my car!

with some water additive for your distilled water, you don't have to worry about corrosion or rusting.

Actually, some systems have two types of metals (copper, aluminum) which can cause galvanic corrosion, so an anti-corrosive is a good thing. Also, there is the bacterial issue, so it's good to have something in there to kill the nasties, lest they take over your PC and use it for evil.

For the uninformed, hot dip galvanizing involves putting iron or steel (not aluminum right?) into a zinc and iron (with a touch of aluminum) molten mix. This does wonderful things for your metal, but mainly the process inhibits rust, which would void any rust warranties your dealer wants to sell you.

If their sky is dull and gray, I am assuming this is because of industrial and vehicular pollution, which would affect the also visibilty of the ads, right?

Developed in the late 1950s, magnetic induction never really caught on

Gee, silly me, and I always thought Faraday developed "magnetic induction" and that it was in wide use. But, hey, it has turned out that, contrary to my own silly ideas, Gates actually invented the Internet and that BT invented the hyperlink, so I must be wrong on Faraday as well.

For the curious, the melting point of NaCl is 804 degrees centigrade. Here's a link describing the process of procuring sodium from table salt.