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Elements
Topic Started: Dec 20 2010, 07:42 PM (552 Views)
Michelle
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I love Xenon... I dunno, just has a cool name. Neon's awesome too. Of course, I love Mercury. I wish I could play with some!
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CJ
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Yeah, me too. There was a time when you could play with mercury in school Science lessons. Unfortunately, the Minimata disaster happened, mercury's risk factor was upgraded, and it was banned from school science labs.
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Michelle
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Damn, that sucks. I believe my parents have played with it before.
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CJ
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Yeah - I'm not sure people were aware of the dangers back then.

I wonder whether it could be made safe? I don't think the students would come to much harm if they spend only one lesson with it. The school staff would spend quite a bit longer than one lesson with it in their time at the school, and it probably would harm them over the years.
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Michelle
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It may harm the teachers if they use it for more than one lesson, though.
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CJ
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Yeah, that's basically what I was saying. It probably would harm them if they did lessons every year for quite a lot of years.
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Michelle
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Oh, sorry, didn't notice.
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Michelle
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At the Science Museum Oklahoma, they have tubes with different gases. I found out xenon produces a blue colour... so yeah, I love xenon even more so. Argon was really pretty too, it was purple.
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CJ
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Funny. I'd always thought of argon as being green, for some reason. I have no idea why.
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Michelle
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Hmm... well I didn't know what it looked like either. There was another element, but I forgot what it was.
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CJ
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Was it another noble gas, can you remember?
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Michelle
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I have no idea.
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Pyrite
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Just as Planned

I'm just going to leave this here:


Anyone else know the song off by heart :P ?
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CJ
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Unfortuantely, I don't :P .
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Michelle
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Nope, sorry...
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