Pinboard: bookmarks for maciej tagged 'chem'

"The problem of removing a human brain from the skull while keeping it viable could be difficult, but doing-so quickly at low temperature might eliminate the need for constant perfusion."

cryonics physics bio chem pressure crank
march 2007 by maciej

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Uranium Hexafluoride Tailings - characteristics, transport and storage

PDF on UF6 storage at a siberian chemical facility in Tomsk

risk nukes uranium chem pdf
january 2007 by maciej

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depleted uranium hexafluoride videos

full-on geekout on storage and corrosion properties of (D)UF6, the most common byproduct of uranium enrichment

uranium nukes chem physics video geekout obsess corrosion risk gas
january 2007 by maciej

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Building a World Class Home Distillation Apparatus - Home Page

5000 years of beautiful tradition

booze howto chem
december 2006 by maciej

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Amorphous ice and glassy water

more water weirdness

chem cryogenic water physics physical chemistry
december 2006 by maciej

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Thanksgiving, Turkey, and Tryptophan

Debunking the turkey-as-tryptophan-bomb myth. " I suspect substitution of a 10-lb Thanksgiving hamburger for your turkey will have the same result."

chem bio biochem turkey thanksgiving received_ideas debunk eat serotonin tryptophan
november 2006 by maciej

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Ibogaine - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

"The most studied long-term therapeutic effect is that ibogaine seems to catalyze partial or complete interruption of addiction to opioids."

chem bio drug opiate addiction
november 2006 by maciej

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WPI News & Events - Student Gulps Into Medical Literature

"What's not mentioned in the story is that once the upper valve to the stomach freezes, there is only one way for the gas to work itself of out the digestive tract." Kids, do not swallow liquid nitrogen.

idiot cryo ha ow med BOOM chem stunt
august 2006 by maciej

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How Not to Do It: Liquid Nitrogen Tanks (with more horror stories in comments)

"The layer of ice and snow covering everything in the lab tipped me off to the fact that the last helium vent must have plugged up."

ha chem boom cryo physics risk lab nmr
august 2006 by maciej

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Mass murder in the skies: was the plot feasible? | The Register

good editorial on the terror scare

aviation chem debunk war_on_terrah register explosives synthesis risk
august 2006 by maciej

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Carmack on explosive organic peroxides

some data points on the sensitivity and synthesis of various mixtures, as pertains to the plane scare

chem carmack rockets synthesis explosives boom war_on_terrah
august 2006 by maciej

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Metallized Hydrogen

GIANT LASERS

boom physics chem hydrogen laser cool phase pchem astro
august 2006 by maciej

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Cold Explosions

Russian article on how and why some methylated cyclohexane + chlorine mixtures explode when chilled to around 10K

cool chem physics russian boom grocklebar
october 2005 by maciej

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Artemis Project: How to Get Oxygen from the Moon

chemistry of 02 extraction from ilmenite, and a diagram of a sample pilot plant

chem moon space howto
october 2005 by maciej

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ILMENITE (Iron Titanium Oxide)

this is the stuff on the Moon they want to try and extract oxygen from

moon space geo chem mineral
october 2005 by maciej

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WHAT'S THAT STUFF? - Process Cheese

Chemical engineering article explaining the distinctions between process cheese food, spread, and product

food chem cult us cheese
august 2005 by maciej

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The anomalous properties of water

great list of 40+ crazy, whack properties of water with detailed explanations

chem physics reference obsess
august 2005 by maciej

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The Beauty of Color through Reaction-Diffusion - Grzybowski Group,Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Northwestern University

beautiful chem porn made by stamping reagents on top of one another in a gel medium. Has lots of industrial applications, but I just like the pictures

img chem art cool micro
august 2005 by maciej

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Metallic Hydrogen Common Questions

lots of informative goodness on everybody's favorite dream metal

chem physics tech cool
august 2005 by maciej

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Radioactive potassium may be major heat source in Earth's core

potassium-iron alloy may be plentiful in the core and provide up to a fifth of the planet's internal heat

geo chem radiation physics
august 2005 by maciej

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Present at the Creation (synthesis of an atom of element 114)

looks like the fabled island of stability actually exists