I used to eat them too. I was afraid to post that because I thought you'd all think I was looney, but I used to eat toad stools too. Talk about yummy! Ate them all the time with the little boy across the street until we got caught one time by my father walking home from work.
A key ingredient in some really cool experiments we did in high school was ammonium sulfide - a semi-clear liquid that stunk of rotten eggs.
(Ammonia + Sulfur = The key ingredient in stink bombs)
Trust me - you knew if you left the cap open on THAT jar.
That stinky stuff combined with something dissolved in water - salt or aluminum powder or something like that - would make a clear liquid turn black - like India Ink black with just a few drops. We used that to WOW the elementary kids when they had their science fair.
ok, I actually went and looked up toadstool because I really thought you meant you like to eat frog poop! I was having trouble thinking how that was anything close to matchheads. :goofy:
I get a fairy ring growing in my lawn during rainy periods. Sometimes the mushrooms grow as large as salad plates. There is a family of Russian immigrants living across the street from me. Last summer when they were particularly large one of the women came over with a plastic bag and cut them off and took them home. I guess she was going to cook with them. Maybe I'll beat her to the punch this summer. :smile:
Fairy rings don't always grow in the shade. Some feed off decayed roots of old trees. Mine ring is a result of the latter. There used to be a big old box elder tree in the yard that was removed for obvious reasons. Years ago, when I was growing up, there were so many bugs the trunk would be red. I remember my father taking a kettle of boiling water and pouring it on the trunk.
I like this definition of a fairy ring.
fairy ring
n. a naturally occurring ground circle caused by fungi or other biological agents; figuratively, a fanciful ring or circle of mystical or unusual behavior or action.
speaking of Tim... Jake was at the WILD hockey game the other night when over the loud speaker he heard "Larry Petrie" - and saw Larry's face on the JUMBO TRON - turns out Larry got picked out of thousands to try and win some game- guess he didn't though :frown: -- but cool nun-the-less
Ok, since you were talking about calling fortune 500 people at home...Who's the person at The Home Depot corporate in charge of Gift Regstries? Because it's horseshit and I want to complain.
The lamp consists of an incandescent bulb which heats the contents of a tapered glass bottle containing water and a translucent mix of wax and carbon tetrachloride (although other combinations may be used). A metallic wire coil which is hidden in the base of the lamp both furthers the necessary heat convection and suspends the falling blobs of liquid wax.
The wax is slightly denser than the water at room temperature, and slightly less dense than the water under marginally warmer conditions. This occurs because the wax expands more than the water when both are heated.
While common wax is much less dense than water and would float in it at any room temperature, a heavy, nonflammable solvent is added to tune the wax density to be just slightly higher than that of water.
Wax at the bottom heats until it melts, eventually becoming less dense than the liquid around it; portions of wax thus overcomes its surface tension and rises. Near the top, away from the heat source, the wax cools and contracts, and as its density thus increases it begins to fall.
The lava lamp owes its classic shape to physics as much as aesthetics: at the tapered end there is more surface area per unit volume of liquid, hence the liquid in that area undergoes a higher rate of cooling than the liquid nearer the bottom. The whole process is a macroscopic, visible, form of convection heat transfer, although it also occurs on a molecular scale within the liquids themselves. The difference in temperature between the top and bottom of the lava lamp, as with a Galilean thermometer, is only a few degrees.
While the fluctuating wax spheroids frequently collide as they rise and fall, they do not cohere in transit insofar as they regain sufficient surface tension. The heat source at the bottom, most specifically the heat coil, overcomes surface tension of the individual wax blobs. This causes the descending individual blobs of wax to coalesce into the single liquid wax mass at the bottom of the container.
The cycle of rising and falling masses of colorful wax continues for as long as the temperature differential remains sufficiently great. Operating temperatures of lava lamps vary, but are normally around 60 °C (140 °F). If too low or too high a wattage bulb is used in the base, the "lava" ceases to circulate, either remaining quiescent at the bottom (too cold) or virtually all of it rising to the top (too hot).
Sensitivity to initial conditions renders the manifold characteristics of the wax blobs (their phase shifts, size, speed, number, currents, protean forms, varying viscosity, collisions, etc.) sufficiently unpredictable to serve as an excellent if fanciful example of chaos theory in action. The Lavarand system used this unpredictability as the basis of a notable hardware random number generator.
::raises hand high in the air:: :ooh: :ooh:
Me Too! Me Too! Me Too!
Uh, oops - sorry, um...
Me Also! Me Also! Me Also!
Wanted to avoid confusion there...
Seems like Mr. 300 is the only one who doesn't seem to know the meaning of life. :smile:
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A%C3%A7a%C3%AD_Palm
Is this a trick question? I thought your job at 3M had to do with chemistry or something of the like...
I ate them as a kid and I'd eat them now.
(Ammonia + Sulfur = The key ingredient in stink bombs)
Trust me - you knew if you left the cap open on THAT jar.
That stinky stuff combined with something dissolved in water - salt or aluminum powder or something like that - would make a clear liquid turn black - like India Ink black with just a few drops. We used that to WOW the elementary kids when they had their science fair.
:grin:
Toad Stool = Frog Poop
Weiner Dog = ?????
Just trying to gauge where your mind is at...considering all your eggs are 'cracked' on your avatar. :wink:
OT: What kind of tree do you have that has heavy enough cover to create a fairy ring - a Sugar Maple or something like that?
I like this definition of a fairy ring.
fairy ring
n. a naturally occurring ground circle caused by fungi or other biological agents; figuratively, a fanciful ring or circle of mystical or unusual behavior or action.
and I can't even tell you what I was thinking when I read "fairy ring" :sheepish:
ty for posting the def.
I'm not sure where the ring is tho :lipsealed:
(I had to look up toadstools too)
speaking of Tim... Jake was at the WILD hockey game the other night when over the loud speaker he heard "Larry Petrie" - and saw Larry's face on the JUMBO TRON - turns out Larry got picked out of thousands to try and win some game- guess he didn't though :frown: -- but cool nun-the-less
reminds me of MarleyKing
starting here
http://pages.ebay.com/realestate/homesellerguide.html
gotta wait til i'm at home :frown:
frank blake
Carol B. Tome
Joe J. DeAngelo
Craig A. Menear
J. Paul Raines
Robert L. Nardelli
770-433-8211
you can call this no and use the name directory...
odds are you'll get a receptionist...but your half way there once you get one of those..
The wax is slightly denser than the water at room temperature, and slightly less dense than the water under marginally warmer conditions. This occurs because the wax expands more than the water when both are heated.
While common wax is much less dense than water and would float in it at any room temperature, a heavy, nonflammable solvent is added to tune the wax density to be just slightly higher than that of water.
Wax at the bottom heats until it melts, eventually becoming less dense than the liquid around it; portions of wax thus overcomes its surface tension and rises. Near the top, away from the heat source, the wax cools and contracts, and as its density thus increases it begins to fall.
The lava lamp owes its classic shape to physics as much as aesthetics: at the tapered end there is more surface area per unit volume of liquid, hence the liquid in that area undergoes a higher rate of cooling than the liquid nearer the bottom. The whole process is a macroscopic, visible, form of convection heat transfer, although it also occurs on a molecular scale within the liquids themselves. The difference in temperature between the top and bottom of the lava lamp, as with a Galilean thermometer, is only a few degrees.
While the fluctuating wax spheroids frequently collide as they rise and fall, they do not cohere in transit insofar as they regain sufficient surface tension. The heat source at the bottom, most specifically the heat coil, overcomes surface tension of the individual wax blobs. This causes the descending individual blobs of wax to coalesce into the single liquid wax mass at the bottom of the container.
The cycle of rising and falling masses of colorful wax continues for as long as the temperature differential remains sufficiently great. Operating temperatures of lava lamps vary, but are normally around 60 °C (140 °F). If too low or too high a wattage bulb is used in the base, the "lava" ceases to circulate, either remaining quiescent at the bottom (too cold) or virtually all of it rising to the top (too hot).
Sensitivity to initial conditions renders the manifold characteristics of the wax blobs (their phase shifts, size, speed, number, currents, protean forms, varying viscosity, collisions, etc.) sufficiently unpredictable to serve as an excellent if fanciful example of chaos theory in action. The Lavarand system used this unpredictability as the basis of a notable hardware random number generator.