Re: [meteorite-list] Serious question?

2003-09-18 Thread S. Singletary
At 08:55 PM 9/18/2003 +1000, chris sharp wrote: The iron impactor disintegrated and spread iron all over the planet in a fallout cloud and created a layer of iron rich material on the surface. My knee-jerk reaction to that is to think about the large iron meteorites in our collections. They tend

RE: [meteorite-list] Serious question?

2003-09-17 Thread S. Singletary
At 08:10 PM 9/17/2003 -0400, Charles R. Viau wrote: Oxidation - Definition - Combining a substance with oxygen. Strictly speaking oxidation is the loss of electrons. The electrons need somewhere to go so something is going to gain electrons and that is the reduction part. So to undergo oxidation,

RE: [meteorite-list] Serious question?

2003-09-17 Thread S. Singletary
Nope. I call that, as will any chemist you ask, an oxidation-reduction reaction. Oxidation is the loss of electrons, nothing more nothing less. Steven At 08:32 PM 9/17/2003 -0400, you wrote: Ok, so for the symantics of that definition, would you call that a reduction reaction not involving

Re: [meteorite-list] Screwball

2003-06-16 Thread S. Singletary
At 09:12 PM 6/16/2003 -0600, David Freeman wrote: If one imagines any number of objects that go air borne at flight speed; either motorbikes, NASCARS, fighter jets, skydivers Actually, for skydivers - if you relax and have proper arch, you can be at terminal velocity and remain on heading,