Slashdot Mirror
World's Most Exciting Chemistry Movies
Michael Buckbee writes: "After Dan's page got too slashdotted to view, I ran a quick search on Google for more more fun Ferroliquid sites and stumbled into a collection of movies that I wish had been taken in my chemistry classes. Almost all of the experiment descriptions lean heavily on the phrase "EXTREME DANGER" and many contain other fun words like: "Explosion", "Toxic", "Detonation", and "Diazotization"."
>Almost all of the experiment descriptions lean heavily on
>the phrase "EXTREME DANGER" and many contain other fun
>words like: "Explosion", "Toxic", "Detonation", and "Diazotization"."
Sounds like MSNBC's coverage for the past week...
Here's a short depiction of what I'm trying to accomplish. If you've got any ideas - pass them my way...I've got a balloon of ferrofluid suspended inside a tube filled with the water - attached to the walls. Outside the tube I have a configuration of solenoids, hooked up to deliver a magnetic field in sequence starting at one end of the tube - and stepping to the other end. The effect should expand the balloon to the walls of the tube, and the stepping of this bubble down the tube should propell the water... Hopefully in a smooth fashion. I've got everything working except the sequencing drivers for the solenoids, so it's looking good so far.
I never got around to trying to build an MHD fountain that would shoot salt water up in the air past a large magnet and a pair of electrodes. Has anyone tried this kind of a project?
"Sorta like the 'light my fart' pictures that those morons in high school were always trying to take."
"Blue flames abound, but we were always puzzled by the one guy who produced green flames. Never did figure out how."[emphasis added]
Interesting how "those morons" in the first sentence becomes "we" in the second. I guess that's what happens when one puts people down for doing something one does themselves. 8^}
Cheers,
Zero__Kelvin
Guns don't kill people; Physics kills people! - John Lithgow as Dick Solomon on Third Rock From The Sun
Our HS chem teacher was nice/crazy enough to allow us to do any experiment we wanted as long as it wasnt too dangerous. So I ended up doing the Nitrogen Triiodide experiment. I think I made too much cause we went without using one of the fume hoods for a month. Everyone was too scared to go near the filterpapers because they would spontaneously react. It was fun watching the lower divistion classes jump when some would spark drung a lecture.
How about "World's Most Slashdotted Chemistry Movies" ?
This is the place where you write something that will make you seem like a complete idiot.
It should be quite easy to use mod_rewrite in apache to set it up to respond to all requests where the referer contains "slashdot.org" with a '404 slashdotted' response. Perhaps such a configuration it should come as part of the default apache config ;).
MTV Press Release: Following in the footsteps of the controversial show "Jackass," MTV proudly presents a similar show for those of the chemical persuasion: "Jackass Chemistry." Tune in each week to see your favorite nerds mix things that should not be mixed together. Watch the halarious explosions and poisonous gas clouds that follow! For mature audiences only. WIK