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Please don't laugh. This week I have lots of work so I am operating on 5 hours of sleep a night, so I don't remember stuff that should be obvious to me.
Calcium carbonate is a gas, right?
Calcium carbonate is a gas, right?
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"You're the biggest user of hindsight that I've ever known. Your favorite team, in any sport, is the one that just won. If you were a woman, you'd likely be a slut." - Slowwhand, to Imran
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Isn't that cave deposit?
Just a guess"When you ride alone, you ride with Bin Ladin"-Bill Maher
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Gas? No..."The issue is there are still many people out there that use religion as a crutch for bigotry and hate. Like Ben."
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It's limestone."Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before. He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way. "
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Solid then.
edit: that was in response to Asher. I'm still not that stupid."You're the biggest user of hindsight that I've ever known. Your favorite team, in any sport, is the one that just won. If you were a woman, you'd likely be a slut." - Slowwhand, to Imran
Eschewing silly games since December 4, 2005Comment
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just make up your mind and have one babe as ur avatar!
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At room temperature, it is a solid. If you heat it up to 2000K or so it is a gas
Gnu Ex Machina - the Gnu in the MachineComment
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the calcium bit should be a tip off to what it isComment
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I can't think of a calcium compound that is gasous at STP.(\__/) 07/07/1937 - Never forget
(='.'=) "Claims demand evidence; extraordinary claims demand extraordinary evidence." -- Carl Sagan
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That's because there isn't one
Gnu Ex Machina - the Gnu in the MachineComment
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Nitpick mode:
Calcium carbonate cannot be vaporised by heating it. It breaks up long before that, releasing CO2 and becoming calcium oxide (quicklime).
...Which has the useful property of reacting strongly with water to produce calcium hydroxide (slaked lime) and a good deal of heat. It's used in some survival kits, to heat soup. A self-heating can has a compartment containing quicklime and a water container that's opened when you pull a tab.
Don't try mixing it into the soup itself, slaked lime is a somewhat toxic alkali.Comment
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Yum, I want to line my intestine with chalkOriginally posted by Jack the Bodiless
Don't try mixing it into the soup itself, slaked lime is a somewhat toxic alkali.
(\__/) 07/07/1937 - Never forget
(='.'=) "Claims demand evidence; extraordinary claims demand extraordinary evidence." -- Carl Sagan
(")_(") "Starting the fire from within."Comment
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Useful tip of the day: quicklime is also good for dissolving corpses.Comment
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I thought they used it to preserve corpses?Originally posted by Jack the Bodiless
Useful tip of the day: quicklime is also good for dissolving corpses.(\__/) 07/07/1937 - Never forget
(='.'=) "Claims demand evidence; extraordinary claims demand extraordinary evidence." -- Carl Sagan
(")_(") "Starting the fire from within."Comment
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No, they used to throw a shovelful of quicklime into the grave with the bodies of people who died of some diseases (typhoid, cholera) to speed up decomposition and to reduce any risk of contamination.Originally posted by Urban Ranger
I thought they used it to preserve corpses?Never give an AI an even break.Comment
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