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Aquarium Modcase
zeptic writes "How about an aquarium in your running computer? This casemod shows you how it's done. The cool pictures can be found on the same site page, and there is an English summary on the last page."
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This guy put an ant farm in his case.
I thought someone actually put an aquarium in their case, instead of that cheesy ass storebought Lian-Li side panel.. That 3dhardware guy (the guy with the video reviews) did one of these a long time ago... for shame zeptic
You can get the kit for this mod at Think Geek: http://www.thinkgeek.com/pcmods/cases/6151/
Thinkgeek has been selling these very things for ages. Same case, same aquarium kit. Did he buy the thing from Thinkgeek? (apologies if it says in the article... my German is just a little rusty ;))
I believe this is what you are looking for. I thought about doing it, but $700 is a bit much for a computer case, no matter how cool it is.
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http://www.thinkgeek.com/pcmods/cases/6169/
It's a Lian-Li case with a window with fake fish. Nothing too exciting, here...
people have been doing this for years with old macs
I haven't had chem since high school, but there's a process where if you have a dynamic equilibrium like hydronium ions in water and you start removing the ions, it will actually stimulate more hydronium ions to be produced in the water! The Germans discovered / exploited this process to create Ammonium in World War 1 from Nitrogen and Hydrogen.
However, isn't distilled water relatively non-conductive? Does that mean that you could run the parts of the computer that don't move submerged in distilled water safely, if you could keep the water free of contaminants?
*Smacks head
Oh yeah! You're right. That's Le Chatelier's principle. You're also right about hydronium. I always just pretended that water dissociated into hydrogen and hydroxide instead of hydronium and hydroxide because it made my stoichiometry easier.
Yeah, it was Fritz Haber who had an excellent method of synthesizing ammonia from nitrogen and hydrogen, and got a nobel prize for it even, IIRC. During world war one, he was a patriot and a tremendous asset to germany. He was instrumental in developing poison gas after the introduction of trench warfare. He saw Germany's defeat as a personal failure. He and his staff were world renowned and made many important contributions to physical chemistry. Here's the irony: when the 1930's roll around, the great patriot's contributions are forgotten, and suddenly he's just another "dirty Jew" to the Nazi party. Haber is forced to leave the country.
De-ionized water is one of the best solvents known to man. It will litterally eat everything out of the computer in effort to get some impurities.
My uncle specalizes in water quality. He can get you water that measures 18 megaohms resistence. pour some directly from the pipe to a clean glass and you will measure no more than 12 megaohms. In the short time it takes to measure, water has absorbed that many impurities from the air.
Take the pure water (actually de-ionized, impurities are allowed so long as they are not ions...) and and put it into a computer and it will remove the metal from the etching on the board to get some impurities.
It's been done. It's made by 3M and it's called "Fluorinert".
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