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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_who_disappeared_mysteriously
Al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah (36), sixth Fatimid caliph and 16th Ismaili imam, rode his donkey to the Muqattam hills outside Cairo for one of his regular nocturnal meditation outings and failed to return. A search found only the donkey and his bloodstained garments.
The donkey done it :orly:
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"Baskin Robbins once made ketchup ice cream. This was the only vegetable flavored ice cream produced. " :P
"Elvis Presley made only one television commercial - an ad for "Southern Maid Doughnuts" that ran in 1954."
"Swans are the only birds with penises."
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Baskin Robbins once made ketchup ice cream. This was the only vegetable flavored ice cream produced
ewww :sick:
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Generic viodin is chalky
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Generic viodin is chalky
I just swallow mine whole. Do you chew them up?
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No it kept getting stuck in my mouth and tasted yucky
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I make cheese sandwiches without butter on my bread
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My back X-rays from 2 years ago show "scoliosis and mild spurring." (The scoliosis was already known about, wasn't severe enough to need treatment.) :thumbup:
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China holds a near monopoly on processing the rare earth metals
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5 out of 4 prefer brunettes over blonds.
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The transmissions on the early Soviet T-34 tanks were so bad, that they went to the battlefield with a spare transmission straped to the back of their tanks!!
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Elephants have four knees and they can't jump.
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Robert Wadlow was .9 of an inch short of 9 foot and still growing when he died. He died very young of a toe infection. Too much body for heart to circulate blood in.
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The scientific name for a small penis, is a micropenis.
True Story;
An adult penis with an erect length of less than 7 cm or just over 2 inches but otherwise formed normally is referred to in a medical context as having the micropenis condition.
For other interesting penis facts (with pics);
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_penis_size
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Potassium perchlorate is more stable than potassium chlorate, despite having a higher oxidation number. This is due to the fact that the central chlorine is a closed shell atom, "protected" by the four oxygen atoms around it.
Therefore potassium perchlorate might be mixed with chemicals that are usually dangerous to mix with potassium chlorate, especially sulfur and sulfur compunds and ammonium compounds.
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Humans have 4 nostrils. 2 external, 2 internal.
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Americium is the only synthetic (man-made) element that can be purchased at Walmart it;s in smoke detectors
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The three-strip Cinemiracle large-screen film format used mirrors to avoid patent infringement.
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The three-strip Cinemiracle large-screen film format used mirrors to avoid patent infringement.
in this case, odeon was a thread killer. :laugh:
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I got a mental block after reading Shleed's four-nostril post. Can't quite figure it out! :duh:
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The three-strip Cinemiracle large-screen film format used mirrors to avoid patent infringement.
in this case, odeon was a thread killer. :laugh:
:laugh:
No-one is interested in old cinema technology these days.
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I got a mental block after reading Shleed's four-nostril post. Can't quite figure it out! :duh:
Two of them are internal, near the throat. They enable you to breathe though the nose when your mouth is closed. When you have a blocked nose, these usually get swollen which cause difficulty when breathing through the nose.
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I got a mental block after reading Shleed's four-nostril post. Can't quite figure it out! :duh:
Two of them are internal, near the throat. They enable you to breathe though the nose when your mouth is closed. When you have a blocked nose, these usually get swollen which cause difficulty when breathing through the nose.
Fascinating, who knew? I must look up a diagram so I know where mine are!
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Speaking of anatomy, I have very large sinuses! My right sinus shows up in my dental X-rays. Since the sinuses in the head are filled with AIR, I reckon I have more air in my head than any of you! :1st:
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Four people are killed a year by randomly falling vending machines.
Mosquitoes prefer children to adults and blondes to brunettes.
Termites eat wood twice as fast when listening to heavy metal music.
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Four people are killed a year by randomly falling vending machines.
Mosquitoes prefer children to adults and blondes to brunettes.
Termites eat wood twice as fast when listening to heavy metal music.
Now I feel forever young. :laugh:
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Sweden never signed the peace treaty with San Marino in the Westphalian Peace in 1648. According to Swedish officials and diplomats that doesn't mean anything since Sweden and San Marino never were in war de facto.
Unlike this, the town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, which has a kind of autonomy within the UK, signed a separate peace treaty with Russia in 1966, which ended the Crimean War. The British ambassador at the time said to his Russian counterparts that "Now you can tell the Russian people that they can finally sleep peacefully in their beds".
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In Ireland there's a town called Muff.
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Four people are killed a year by randomly falling vending machines.
Do vending machines often fall over randomly? I thought they were pretty good at staying upright when not in an earthquake or being deliberately shaken and tipped by people trying to get products out of them.
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I bet those people were rocking the vending machines on purpose to get their food that got stuck. It has happened (food stuck) to me before but I didn't rock the machine. I just kicked it.
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Wouldn't a suction cup and a glass cutter be better?
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Or really long arms.
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Or a vacuum cleaner with a powerful hose attachment! :2thumbsup:
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The rock station had a good trivia question this morning:
Apple Inc. just topped $1Trillion in net worth but it's far from the wealthiest corporation in history.
The largest and wealthiest corporation in world history would be worth roughly $8Trillion in today's dollars.
What was the name of this company??
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I do know that one, but I won't spoil it for the others.
I heard a similar show, today. I was amazed.
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:lol1:
Yeah, on other member here might know it to because they learned it in school.
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I'm guessing the Dutch East Indies company. Or whatever it was called.
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Rothchild's conglomerate would have to rate or would if it was one company/organisation. But Yeah probably the Dutch East Indies company
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What does that graph relate to? Deaths, a certain location, per a certain number of people?
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What does that graph relate to? Deaths, a certain location, per a certain number of people?
I suspect that it's a useless mixture of all those things.
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I noticed the bee sting statistic. :bee:
When my daughter was three she was stung by a fairly large bee. I do know the difference, but around here everyone calls every stinging, flying insect a bee - just ignorance. It was not a wasp or hornet, it was a large bee that stung her and it was a bit traumatic to her for a while.
We live within a couple of miles of a large hospital and quite often one of those heavy, noisy "lifeline" helicopters flies over. My daughter would freak the fuck out and run inside at the first sight of one of them. She was terrified and in my efforts to calm her I discovered the root of her fear of helicopters.
She was very scared that the helicopter would swoop down and sting her. It took a while to get her past this. :asthing:
She has been stung several times in the past fifteen years and no longer seems to have a fear of aircraft.
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We have bulldog ants around here. Big bitey critters that sometimes kill people.
At least 100 people die in the US from bee sting every year. In Africa I imagine that number would be much higher. The graph I shared looks like it was made up on the spot.
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We have bulldog ants around here. Big bitey critters that sometimes kill people.
At least 100 people die in the US from bee sting every year. In Africa I imagine that number would be much higher. The graph I shared looks like it was made up on the spot.
I think you should play with them
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I forgot to mention this last night, but yesterday, after I picked up my daughte (AND she had to pop back home to change, of course) we went to watch the start of a hot air balloon race. Thirty four hot air balloons took off in rapid succession.
It actually took almost an hour because there was very little wind until they got to a certain elevation and could get out of the way of the next one's take off.
Not all the balloons were in the race. Several toward the end of the take offs were only there for whatever reason someone goes up in a hot air balloon.
Anyway, it was quite a visual and heart enriching spectacle.
A few years ago I attended this event and they got them all off in about twenty minutes. It was very windy that day and the balloons just zipped away as soon as they were off the ground, clearing the way for the next racer.
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What does that graph relate to? Deaths, a certain location, per a certain number of people?
I suspect that it's a useless mixture of all those things.
The source didn't say? Sort of takes away from the interesting part. :laugh: Must be from a very shark attacky place and/or somewhere with very little lightning. This graph shows one is 4 times more likely to be killed(?) by lightning than a shark attack. Google says, in the US one is 47 times more likely to be killed by lightning than a shark.
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What does that graph relate to? Deaths, a certain location, per a certain number of people?
I suspect that it's a useless mixture of all those things.
The source didn't say? Sort of takes away from the interesting part. :laugh: Must be from a very shark attacky place and/or somewhere with very little lightning. This graph shows one is 4 times more likely to be killed(?) by lightning than a shark attack. Google says, in the US one is 47 times more likely to be killed by lightning than a shark.
Google also says in the US one is also more likely to be killed by lightning than a dog, although the odds aren't remarkably dissimilar.
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We have bulldog ants around here. Big bitey critters that sometimes kill people.
At least 100 people die in the US from bee sting every year. In Africa I imagine that number would be much higher. The graph I shared looks like it was made up on the spot.
I think you should play with them
No thanks. Last time I got stung by a bulldog ant it hurt like a bastard.
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What does that graph relate to? Deaths, a certain location, per a certain number of people?
I suspect that it's a useless mixture of all those things.
The source didn't say? Sort of takes away from the interesting part. :laugh: Must be from a very shark attacky place and/or somewhere with very little lightning. This graph shows one is 4 times more likely to be killed(?) by lightning than a shark attack. Google says, in the US one is 47 times more likely to be killed by lightning than a shark.
I was googling vending machine deaths and that graph popped up on google images. It's obviously completely out of whack with the real stats on most of the items listed - most likely a mixture of local stats vs worldwide stats.
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We have bulldog ants around here. Big bitey critters that sometimes kill people.
At least 100 people die in the US from bee sting every year. In Africa I imagine that number would be much higher. The graph I shared looks like it was made up on the spot.
I think you should play with them
No thanks. Last time I got stung by a bulldog ant it hurt like a bastard.
Yes, hence why you should play with them. Smear yourself with honey and roll on their nest. It'd be comedy gold.
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When I was a child I sat on the swing seat. Unfortunately there was a wasp/bee there before me. Yep, I got stung in the ass by a bee. :hahaha:
I had my revenge though, the critter was squashed in the act ass.
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We have bulldog ants around here. Big bitey critters that sometimes kill people.
At least 100 people die in the US from bee sting every year. In Africa I imagine that number would be much higher. The graph I shared looks like it was made up on the spot.
I think you should play with them
No thanks. Last time I got stung by a bulldog ant it hurt like a bastard.
Yes, hence why you should play with them. Smear yourself with honey and roll on their nest. It'd be comedy gold.
Bring the honey and the camera. We'll make a day of it.
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I've been stung by bees three times. Once on the upper arm in a neighbour's swimming pool, once stepped on one in the front yard (that one hurt the most) and another time on the hand on a camp out in the bush. I was pouring water into a cup from a container when I got stung.
When I was 6 I was at school sitting outside on the ground outside with the rest of my class when I got bitten 3 times on the knee by bull ants. I cried a fair bit but no one did anything.
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When I was a child I sat on the swing seat. Unfortunately there was a wasp/bee there before me. Yep, I got stung in the ass by a bee. :hahaha:
I had my revenge though, the critter was squashed in the act ass.
At least you did not develop a long lasting terror of flying aircraft swooping down to sting you. :asthing:
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I've been stung by bees three times. Once on the upper arm in a neighbour's swimming pool, once stepped on one in the front yard (that one hurt the most) and another time on the hand on a camp out in the bush. I was pouring water into a cup from a container when I got stung.
When I was 6 I was at school sitting outside on the ground outside with the rest of my class when I got bitten 3 times on the knee by bull ants. I cried a fair bit but no one did anything.
I usually get stung about three or four times every summer working in my garden. Usually it is a wasp getting caught in my collar while I am trimming things.
They sting over and over. Last time I had six little holes in my neck when I went in to show my wife and ask for some sympathy treatment. She would have needed a trip to the emergency room if she got stung.
Ants usually bite down first and hold on with their powerful legs locking them around however they can and THEN begin stinging. Some of them hurt and some the larger ones can actually tear human flesh with their jaws as they cling to you, but there are no toxins in their bite.
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When I was a child I sat on the swing seat. Unfortunately there was a wasp/bee there before me. Yep, I got stung in the ass by a bee. :hahaha:
I had my revenge though, the critter was squashed in the act ass.
At least you did not develop a long lasting terror of flying aircraft swooping down to sting you. :asthing:
That's why I spend most of my time sitting down once I determine the seat is bee free.
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:asthing:
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The plural of hippopotamus is a long, clunky, difficult to type word, so I will spare you from attempting to do so.
:tard:
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For you folks who are on a silver search, You might get lucky once in a while grabbing a couple of half dollar rolls. Pretty sure the quarter rolls have already been gleaned.
I did that for awhile, but the results were not very good. BUT, if you go to a bank and ask for thirty or forty rolls of half dollars (say four hundred dollars in half dollars), they probably will not have that many on hand. They will have to go to their main branch vault and pull out really old rolls of half dollars.
Last time I did this I found forty three 40% halves (worth about three bucks each) and ten 90% (worth about seven bucks each).
So a lazy afternoon digging through a few stinky half dollar rolls paid off.
I invested four hundred bucks and made two hundred ten bucks in one week end, drinking a beer or two. You have to pay back the bank for halves you pull out to take to silver broker when you turn them back over, so that is where the discrepancy occurs.
Just remember, Don't get two or three rolls.
Make them go back into their vault and bring you a bunch of rolls. Might have to call ahead or come back next day, but it is worth the effort if you are a silver scrounger.
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What do the following 4 band names have in common??
Jethro Tull
Molly Hatchet
Lynyrd Skynyrd and
The Marshall Tucker Band
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They all have vowels, consonants and no numbers in their names. :GA:
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What do the following 4 band names have in common??
Jethro Tull
Molly Hatchet
Lynyrd Skynyrd and
The Marshall Tucker Band
That's easy.
They're all bands from the olden days and they all suck.
Is it that they are all named after real people who were not members of the band?
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What do the following 4 band names have in common??
Jethro Tull
Molly Hatchet
Lynyrd Skynyrd and
The Marshall Tucker Band
That's easy.
Is it that they are all named after real people who were not members of the band?
Yep. And if I had been caller #3 I would've got a $25 gift certificate courtesy of KTWS.
Jethro Tull = Father of modern agriculture
Molly Hatchet = Prostituite who killed several of her clients
Lynyrd Skynyrd = The Van Zant's P.E. teacher
The Marshall Tucker Band = a blind piano tuner who was the previous tennant of the studio the band used.
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"Baskin Robbins once made ketchup ice cream. This was the only vegetable flavored ice cream produced. " :P
"Elvis Presley made only one television commercial - an ad for "Southern Maid Doughnuts" that ran in 1954."
"Swans are the only birds with penises."
Ducks, geese and flightless birds emus and ostriches also have penises. These make up 3% of the bird population.
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My P2P is being cleaned up, washed whilst in dichloromethane, with water and brine, distilling the dichlor off and its coming over nicey, at about 1.5 drops a second.
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Parrots can count up to 6.
Whether that is a worthwhile trade-off for not having a penis, I have no idea.
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Coming over much more slowly at a higher heat now. Going to be ready for oximation and reduction to 'phet with zinc and ammonium formate, which I''ve never done before but apparently it takes just a few minutes, about 5-6 minutes for the reduction to proceed to completion.
That'll be nice, because it took two days work to get from the nitropropene to the ketone, a quick oximation in aqueous medium (oximes are usually insoluble so it ought to precipitate out as its formed. So I can dry the oxime by dissolving it in methanol and adding some 3A molecular sieves.
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Did anyone even read my post about maximizing your silver search?
Seriously, take some bucks, go to a different bank chain every week. Hell I figure if I do not claim all the random silver still in circulation, someone else will.
I have a "thing" maturing and it is paying bit by bit over the coming months. This time I have made arrangements for tomorrow morning to pick up one hundred rolls of half dollars to glean for silver.
It does not cost anything, guys. Sure it is heavy as hell to tote, but the bank will take it all back on Monday morning and the only thing you are out is the silver you found and kept.
Of course a trip to the local silver broker makes you money.
I plan to slow smoke a huge ham as well this weekend. I will be busy.
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Did anyone even read my post about maximizing your silver search?
Seriously, take some bucks, go to a different bank chain every week. Hell I figure if I do not claim all the random silver still in circulation, someone else will.
I have a "thing" maturing and it is paying bit by bit over the coming months. This time I have made arrangements for tomorrow morning to pick up one hundred rolls of half dollars to glean for silver.
It does not cost anything, guys. Sure it is heavy as hell to tote, but the bank will take it all back on Monday morning and the only thing you are out is the silver you found and kept.
Of course a trip to the local silver broker makes you money.
I plan to slow smoke a huge ham as well this weekend. I will be busy.
I used to do that, before they closed 4 banks around here. Rarely found anything though...competition was tough to beat, now with about 3 working banks it's almost impossible, better odds with checking the coinstar return in Walmart.
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How do you test it DD? hydrogen sulfide? nitric acid followed by a chloride salt (precipitates insoluble silver chloride whilst then the nitrate is highly soluble as are most nitrates.)
Reminds me of a great silver find I had. Was searching, of all the places to find a hoard of silver, in a dumpster. Looking for copper or lead, had absolutely NO idea that I was going to find silver, a couple of pieces in silver and either ivory or whalebone , the very least precious being silver buttons for a coat, minus the coat. Thought...hmmm...those have a familiar slight warm golden overtone to the typical bright shiny metallic appearance of bulk metals, it isn't copper, it isn't lead, too heavy for aluminium....is that what I think it is...'
Took everything I found home, after systematically dismantling, piling up in stacks and picking through each and every little trifle, every rubbish sack of old cloth and costume jewellery, to find a rolex, broken but the scrap value for the diamonds and the gold has to be worth having, nabbed each and every one of those buttons unless there may have been one or two I missed buried inside old clothing, the other quite definitely silver and antique silver, plus the silver-ivory or silver-whalebone items. Very definitely nice stuff. The buttons were newer, fresher and less oxidized/less surface sulfide layer, but taking advantage of that characteristic dark tarnish silver can take on, and produced some hydrogen sulfide gas, carefully of course, given it has similar toxicity to hydrogen cyanide, in terms of rapidly knocking down the electron transport chain and inhibiting cellular respiration within mitochondria, choking cells to death on the molecular level despite being in an oxygenated atmosphere. Unlike cyanide, which with first inhalation of an alkyl nitrite ester aka 'poppers', the shitty recreational drug, that acts as a rapid vasodilator and helps deliver nitrite to the system as fast as possible to keep you alive long enough to administer intravenous sodium nitrite (not nitrAte, nitrIte, and finally sodium thiosulfate to complex the liberated cyanide and allow its excretion. I know of someone on one of the chemistry forum who was accidentally poisoned with cyanide, and he would have died within minutes, had he not known what to do, managed to keep his head screwed on in the right direction despite the circumstances, keep calm as possible and prepare and intravenously inject a dose of sodium nitrite. then prepare and inject a second shot of thiosulfate in order to complex the cyanide he'd almost killed himself with. Got to admire courage like that in a hobby chemist, I've gotten myself out of some tough ass scrapes intact, but that takes fucking balls of steel. )
H2S is similarly nasty, if not more insidious, because it sneaks up, foul smelling, like rotting eggs, but also paralyzes the olfactory nerve, so the sense of smell is, if the hydrogen sulfide doesn't kill you outright, deadened temporarily, leading the unwary or those unaware of the insidious tendency of H2S to ninja people and whack them when they think it's gone away, when in reality the situation is just that the individual is unable to detect the odour, And unlike cyanides, the cyanide rescue protocol doesn't work for hydrogen sulfide.
But it IS handy at times, such as for artificially producing tarnish on suspected silver, so as to determine a true or false status. So I could tell I had indeed found goodies beyond what I hoped to possibly find in a dumpster in the stuff that wasn't hallmarked, as I had not at the time, either any nitric acid or any nitrate salt or other nitro or nitrito -compound with which to prepare any, and needed doing one way or the other. No aqua regia as a result either, but I'm not the type to go by a philosophy 'if in doubt go without', or similar, and I had to figure out a way to wing it, which turned out to be roasting metal powder, iron, pretty sure, and sulfur dust to produce a metal sulfide, roughening the surface of a button, wetting it with water, and exposing it to a stream of hydrogen sulfide. Of course needing great care in the proceedings,given the nature of H2S and it's talent for killing people, but the tell-tale blackening told me just what I needed to know, and even better, just what I wanted to hear too, I.e that the effort gone to and use of H2S was justified and that I was indeed sitting on a pile of silver. And the best bits of it antique.
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How do you test it DD? hydrogen sulfide? nitric acid followed by a chloride salt (precipitates insoluble silver chloride whilst then the nitrate is highly soluble as are most nitrates.)
Reminds me of a great silver find I had.
You do not have to test anything at all. US coinage is minted with guaranteed purity standards and all you really have to do is look at the edges.
All the "copper clad" coinage has a copper colored edge. Any doubts as to the silver content; look at the date when the coinage was minted. Early was 90% silver - starting in '65 through '67 they used a 40% mix.
The difference is quite obvious between nickel/copper coins and any with silver content. Silver is also a different color and sticks out like the proverbial "sore thumb," so to speak.
If in doubt, look at the dates. Anything minted '68 or later is garbage nickel/copper crap.
Only exception would be where idiot junkie kids stole from their parent's collection and turned in his "Bicentennial" sets bought directly from the mint.
There are both standards of silver minted to commemorate our bicentennial in 1976.
Back in the seventies, I used to buy bags of silver coins by the pound from Mexico. There was very little control of purity to coinage, so the brokers used chemistry to determine the silver content of various coinage. Kind of a pain, but buying by the peso, by the weight and sending it all to a melter - I won, always.
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Downside of the euro. No silver surprises to be found.
Before that, now and then there was a silver surprise. But never in a fl2,50 coin. Those were bigger than the newer fl2,50 coins, so they had all be found already.
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^ Are you Dutch? ^
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Third time you asked. Thought I had answered you the first time. Apparently not.
Ja, ik heb de Nederlandse nationaliteit.
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If I see a reference to anything Dutch, I should think they're Dutch and not Paraguyan or Uzbek or something.
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Our pre-decimal coins (before 1966) are high in silver and worth multiples of their face value. They've been out of circulation for almost 53 years but.
Our very early 50 cent coins were round and worth a few dollars for their silver content. When they switched to a no silver version of the coin they also changed the shape, so those old round 50 cent coins were easy to spot and went out of circulation very quickly as people got them in their change and traded them in to a dealer or stuck them in a drawer.
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Ah, makes sense, I was thinking along the lines of stuff like the buttons, no marking on them, only a fairly good eye for differentiating elements; the buttons needed testing.
Been wondering whether for things like that, if it might not be more profitable to melt them down in HNO3 and sell it as silver nitrate what are the average spot prices for silver per gram these days? because I've seen AgNO3 go for some pretty reasonable prices, obviously I'd not melt down the antiques, the scrap silver is good to go though, at least as long as I can find it all. And the nitric acid, well all I'd need for that is concentrated sulfuric acid and a nitrate salt add the acid to the with the pressure-equalizing separatory funnel and distill, and I've got about a kilo of sodium nitrate that is just waiting for a use and plenty 98% sulfuric. And I can always use the spare nitric acid. And I'm pretty sure I could find a buyer for any spare strong nitric, plenty of people can't get a hold of HNO3.
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Do the coins actually get melted down and turned into silver ingots? Or are they kept as coins for their intrinsic silver value.
I would guess the latter, unless the coins are badly damaged or severely worn. I've got one silver coin from 1910, would be worth $2000+ in uncirculated condition.... but mine is so worn that you can barely even make out the year.
I've probably got a couple of hundred bucks worth of silver coins somewhere. No plans to sell them. I sold off a few old silver coins that were in poor condition when I was a teenager and had no money... kept the ones that were in decent condition.
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Not so much trivia, but my old man hurt himself pretty badly yesterday, helping give someone's car a push start, completely ruptured his achilles tendon, snapped in two. He went to hospital today, after being ordered to by his doctor. Now he'll have to wear a special boot to force the ends of the tendon into alignment so they'll knit together again, and he's on crutches; told he cannot drive although he did today, had to to get to the doctor, giving me a lift on his way so I could collect my scripts due me, but he's been told not to drive it seems, 6-8 weeks in the boot thing.
Limping pretty badly, looks like it hurts like hell, although I doubt he'd admit it. He won't readily take pain meds or antiinflammatories for it either, stubborn cunt like that, basically because pain is a warning sign he won't dull it.
Which doesn't make sense when its obvious what not to do when you're stuck in a big bracing boot thing for 6-8 weeks on crutches with a ruptured achilles tendon. I certainly wouldn't put up with the pain, although I shouldn't take nonsteroidal antiinflammatory meds because of my stomach issues, opioid pain meds are fine, but I can only take NSAIDs topically, which of course I wouldn't be able to do with my foot in a huge boot-cast given I'd not be able to get to the area to apply a gel.
Still, has to hurt, did offer him something for it, when he was saying it stopped him sleeping last night , although he was still planning on going fishing in a day or two until told that he couldn't drive. That, he isn't best pleased about. Would still help him out of course, I can pick up something for myself if I were to need to cover a few doses of pain medication to help him sleep at night, but I think he'd have to get pretty desperate before he took anything more than a cup of coffee. Hope he recovers quickly though.
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Did anyone even read my post about maximizing your silver search?
Seriously, take some bucks, go to a different bank chain every week. Hell I figure if I do not claim all the random silver still in circulation, someone else will.
I have a "thing" maturing and it is paying bit by bit over the coming months. This time I have made arrangements for tomorrow morning to pick up one hundred rolls of half dollars to glean for silver.
It does not cost anything, guys. Sure it is heavy as hell to tote, but the bank will take it all back on Monday morning and the only thing you are out is the silver you found and kept.
Of course a trip to the local silver broker makes you money.
I plan to slow smoke a huge ham as well this weekend. I will be busy.
There's even a term for what you're doing, it's called Gresham's Law.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gresham's_law
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Downside of the euro. No silver surprises to be found.
Before that, now and then there was a silver surprise. But never in a fl2,50 coin. Those were bigger than the newer fl2,50 coins, so they had all be found already.
Sorry!
I am a bit disappointed with the last of the batch I got as well. Out of the last thirty rolls, six of them were direct from the mint, uncirculated, but there are literally millions of these things minted. No value to me.
I got excited to find that the further down into the stack of rolls I went the older the rolls were. I did find a few more silver pieces, but the last ten (the bank puts them in holders that hold ten rolls) in the stack were all newish and useless.
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Do the coins actually get melted down and turned into silver ingots? Or are they kept as coins for their intrinsic silver value.
I would guess the latter, unless the coins are badly damaged or severely worn. I've got one silver coin from 1910, would be worth $2000+ in uncirculated condition.... but mine is so worn that you can barely even make out the year.
I've probably got a couple of hundred bucks worth of silver coins somewhere. No plans to sell them. I sold off a few old silver coins that were in poor condition when I was a teenager and had no money... kept the ones that were in decent condition.
The coins I turn over to a metal broker are destined to be melted and separated into ingots. If I find anything other than a "Kennedy" I will keep it in another pile. I have not found a "Franklin" in several years and a "Liberty" is not even in my dreams.
I am looking for the coins very few even remember exist.
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Did anyone even read my post about maximizing your silver search?
Seriously, take some bucks, go to a different bank chain every week. Hell I figure if I do not claim all the random silver still in circulation, someone else will.
I have a "thing" maturing and it is paying bit by bit over the coming months. This time I have made arrangements for tomorrow morning to pick up one hundred rolls of half dollars to glean for silver.
It does not cost anything, guys. Sure it is heavy as hell to tote, but the bank will take it all back on Monday morning and the only thing you are out is the silver you found and kept.
Of course a trip to the local silver broker makes you money.
I plan to slow smoke a huge ham as well this weekend. I will be busy.
There's even a term for what you're doing, it's called Gresham's Law.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gresham's_law
Vaguely remember that from high school.
I suppose those like me are a part of the proof of the "law."
Honestly, I see no downside for me.
Before my retirement, I rarely had time to follow this aside as I did so in the eighties. Now that I have more free time and I have taken a raise in fluid funds over working my ass of to get here (!!!!!!) I am still finding a bit . I know the silver is mostly gone, but fuck, every once in a while you get a boost.
A couple of weeks ago I bought a few fancy cigars at a small tobacconist and I got a 90% silver quarter back in my change.
I recognized it immediately and mentioned it and thanked the owner. I then felt odd, offered it back to him and he did not even understand what I was talking about.
He said, "What's wrong? Is it Canadian? I'm sorry. I'll give you another one."
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Tumbleweeds in the US aren't native to North America, they were accidentally introduced from Russia.
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Alaska is not only the most westerly state in the union, but since it sprawls far enough west, it enters the "Eastern Hemisphere" it is also the most easterly of all US states.
:head scratch:
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I know I watch too much NatGeo ..
If we were able to remove all the "empty space" from all the atoms that make up all the humans, seven plus billion strong, on the earth, we could fit all that left over mass into a softball. BUT, that softball would weigh around 1,183,000,000,000 pounds.
(stolen arithmetic, I did not even try to estimate how much all the atoms of all the humans on the planet might weigh. I just watched someone else's efforts)
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Had to look this one up to get the spelling, but I also got this off of NatGeo episodes. Something called Brain "something." Obviously watching the show has not helped my brain to function any better than it already does not.
Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia is the fear of long words.
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I have tried several times to pronounce that word, but still a no go.
I might just throw my bullshit flag here.
Why can the name of a fear of long words not be a really short word, just in case?
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In two weeks I will get another large, life saving check. I intend to go down into Indianapolis (I have called ahead, already) and get two hundred rolls of half dollars this time.
Asking the main branches to open their vaults is my goal.
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I was 1 caller away from winning this morning's trivia question on my local classic rock station.
The question was: When Alan Greenspan was the head of the Federal Reserve, what was the one main economic metric he used to measure the health of the US economy??
The answer is kinda funny, but totally true.
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^ The answer there was Men's underwear sales.
What do the following US Presidents have in common?
George Washington
Andrew Jackson
Zachary Taylor
Franklin Pierce
Andrew Johnson
Ulysses S Grant
James Garfield
Benjamin Harrison
Dwight D Eisenhower
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^ The answer there was Men's underwear sales.
What do the following US Presidents have in common?
George Washington
Andrew Jackson
Zachary Taylor
Franklin Pierce
Andrew Johnson
Ulysses S Grant
James Garfield
Benjamin Harrison
Dwight D Eisenhower
I have a general idea....
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Satoshi Kon's editing style in his films were influenced by the Film Adaption of Slaughterhouse-Five