Re: Beryllium was originally called glucinium becuase it and its salts tasted very sweet. In fact, tasting used to be a diagnostic test for the presence of beryllium.
I remember from my inorganic chem course that lead acetate was also called "sugar of lead" because of it's sweet taste. and if tasting lead salts doesn't send a shiver up your spine... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lead(II)_acetate On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 2:15 PM, Steve Rooke <sar10...@gmail.com> wrote: > Guys, isn't this whole thread getting a bit off-topic. > Yes, it is getting off topic. Delightfully so. > 2009/1/17 Poul-Henning Kamp <p...@phk.freebsd.dk>: >> In message <49710157.5030...@pacific.net>, Brooke Clarke writes: >> >>>I'd bet that's how spy sat mirrors are made. >> >> Your Tax Money At Work Quiz: >> >> 1. Why do you think there was so little research involved in the >> mirror construction for the Webb Telescope ? >> >> 2. Why do you think the KeyHole satellites where so friggin expensive ? >> >> 3. Connect the dots. >> >> :-) >> >> -- >> Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 >> p...@freebsd.org | TCP/IP since RFC 956 >> FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe >> Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. >> >> _______________________________________________ >> time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com >> To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts >> and follow the instructions there. >> > > > > -- > Steve Rooke - ZL3TUV & G8KVD & JAKDTTNW > Omnium finis imminet > > _______________________________________________ > time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com > To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts > and follow the instructions there. > -- --Eric _________________________________________ Eric Garner _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.