Sugestion abaut the magma men to Taody: Have two layers of magma, with only the inner one being fixed temperature, that way there can be cool stuff.
I was thinking this, but in terms of an infinitly hot heart slowly leaking heat out into the magma, so you can freeze them solid with water, but they'll thaw out.
Also, as soon as they surface, they are lava men. Sad but true.
And, finally, 40C isn't really hot (unless its air temp...) . 40C=104F. 160 is 71C.
It's hot for an air temperature precisely because we stop venting the heat we generate when the air is the same temperature. Air even a few degrees cooler plus a fan makes a world of difference.
Even so the being hydrated thing is rather critical because we use the heat sink of liquid water converting to a gas as one of our main heat dispersal amplifiers. It's fun how physics and such feeds into itself.
I man can dream.
That reminds me though, don't we already mine radioactive rocks? Will radiation sickness be implemented?
It would be difficult to get a high enough exposure quickly enough (for us to see,) to warrant taking the time to implement radiation sickness.
I man can dream.
That reminds me though, don't we already mine radioactive rocks? Will radiation sickness be implemented?
It's an interesting question: How radioactive IS most radioactive rock?
Even pitchblende usually radiates a relatively small amount.
However, consider radon. It's problematic in the real world because people's basements are sometimes built within granite, and granite tends to be high in uranium dioxide, which releases radon as a product of its decomposition. Radon is especially bad because you're inhaling the stuff and you're dealing with an area with low ventilation.
So, what does that say about dwarves who have half a fortress dug out into the stuff?
I would say this could be a reasonable addition to the game about the time we have some means of ventilation. I think that would come along around the time we're expected to start installing some kinds of light sources in the twisted mazes we dig out.
Using caged goblins to detect toxic gas buildups - now THAT would be fun.
*mindgasm*
But it is. It's a conductor rather than a resistor and it's on the d orbit section of the periodic table handing it the type of electron configuration that makes things metals. Zinc is a little more obvious as a metal because it's in that same orbital set but still lacking the malleability or whatever to generally be a construction metal.
You've generally been good, but one thing; Alkali metals are alkali metals because their valence electrons are in the s shell, not the d shell, and sodium doesn't even have any non-valence electrons in the d-shell. Transition metals (most common metals) have d shell valence electrons, things like uranium etc have f shell valence electrons.
It takes these kinds of reminders to wake me up about mixing up my generalizations so I'll take it in stride~
Phlogiston is the substance released by a burning metal. It is lighter than air, which makes the flames go up. The resulting burnt metal (called calx) is heavier than the original substance, because it lost its negative-mass phlogiston.
This model is not used much anymore but that doesn't make it any less true!!!
I thought the truth was heavier thanks to the metal all having been oxidized, meaning it reduced oxygen molecules and bound those 16(ish) grams per mol of atoms to the exposed metal atoms and that a sufficiently hot and dense gas emits a blackbody spectrum per it's temperature. Oh, and that lower density fluids rise while denser fluids fall as per PV=nRt (plus the wiggle room since no gas is an ideal gas except at extremely low temperature)~
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