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[G-Flex]

I set things on fire with one of these.

If you put a piece of metal (coin, piece of foil, whatever) on one, it screws things up and gets slightly dangerous, for the following reason:

If you then touch another conductor (a coin, your finger) to that metal, it's pretty much okay, but when you draw the conductor away, the current arcs, creating this weird burning beam sort of thing.

Add this to the list of things I did when I was 13 for lack of anything better to do.

[smjjames]

So you set things on fire with a yahoo broken webpage? j/k really, the link doesn't work.

[Starver]

So you set things on fire with a yahoo broken webpage? j/k really, the link doesn't work.

For those who really want to see it, and can't work out how to correct the URL (no, not you... you can but are just a bit too lazy and/or have already seen this reply so won't need to, but I bet someone else can't) try:

http://tenos.files.wordpress.com/2007/09/plasma_globe.jpg

I'm not quite sure what the OP did, though.  I thought it was a simple "overselect of adjacent whitespace" when clicking on the URL, but I couldn't replicate it.  Never mind.  One can be too anal about such things.

[smjjames]

I thought I tried that correction.

Anyways, I have one of those back home I think, pretty cool really.

[Rowanas]

Hmm. Conversations like this always depress me. I can't do chemistry, I hate my working, I don't write much anymore... it's just a great big pit of all the things I could do but can't, or that I plain cannot get on with . I can... um... write... forum posts?


On second thought, that's not actually a skill, is it?

[G-Flex]

I accidentally put quotes around the URL in the URL tag, and that made things go sort of bonkers.

[SolarShado]

I accidentally put quotes around the URL in the URL tag, and that made things go sort of bonkers.

Too much HTMLing by hand? 

EDIT: oops, sorry for the necro... didn't look at the date before i posted.

[Draco18s]

I accidentally put quotes around the URL in the URL tag, and that made things go sort of bonkers.

Too much HTMLing by hand? 

EDIT: oops, sorry for the necro... didn't look at the date before i posted.

It's not that much of a necro and I had a good read.

[Vlynndar]

Commence necromancy and rerailment.

Here's a picture of a bauxite rock.

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[Warlord255]

I'm tempted to start cataloging what rock types are in my local biome and collecting small samples I can put on a keychain.

If Toady ever makes a game with chemistry or something as a core gameplay mechanic, he might accidentally breed the next generation of scientists.

[Dakk]

I have a thing for going on google images ad searching for piccies of all the minerals I find in DF. Cinnabar looks damn pretty.

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Oh those silly chinese, dining in cinnabar plates and drinking mercurius.

[SolarShado]

Picture isn't working for me.

OT: is that avatar from Fire Embelem, Dakk? It looks like a shaman if I'm remembering the name correctly.

[Dakk]

Aye, its a Shaman from Fire Emblem: The Sacred Stones doing a crit.

[shadow_archmagi]

Malachite is kinda trippy when raw.

When polished it's still kinda trippy.

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Also nice is Ziosite (it has an awesome name too!)

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[G-Flex]

I have a thing for going on google images ad searching for piccies of all the minerals I find in DF. Cinnabar looks damn pretty.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Oh those silly chinese, dining in cinnabar plates and drinking mercurius.

Mercurius?