Re: [Vo]:In the Limelight

2008-06-08 Thread Terry Blanton
On Sat, Jun 7, 2008 at 10:42 AM, Jones Beene [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Funny, how time flies (When you're having Fun) Time's fun when you're havin' flies. Kermit

Re: [Vo]:In the Limelight

2008-06-07 Thread Jones Beene
Which might some day make a nice chain of events for a future episode of BBC Connections. (Last episode 1997 now 21 years old correction FWIW ... actually the fist episode was 1978 making it over 30 years old. Funny, how time flies (When you're having Fun) Jones Funny, time flies even when

Re: [Vo]:In the Limelight

2008-06-07 Thread R C Macaulay
Howdy Jones, Interesting to us is the calcium buildup on our units returned for repairs. Only in certain areas of the US does this buildup occur. even stranger is the locations are often near oceans where chlorine gas is inducted and mixed.. hmm Richard

Re: [Vo]:In the Limelight

2008-06-07 Thread Michael Foster
Since I'm likely the only Vort who has actually made a limelight, allow me to make a few observations. First, limelight isn't lime colored or even slightly greenish, a common misconception on account of the name I guess. It has a very aggreable color compared to the blue-white of the carbon

Re: [Vo]:In the Limelight

2008-06-07 Thread Jones Beene
--- Michael Robin, This is the page that mentions the way that the characteristic greenish color of the light was obtained, with some other interesting stuff. http://www.chem.leeds.ac.uk/delights/texts/Demonstration_19.htm Apparently the greenish color occurs when the oxygen is cut-off or

Re: [Vo]:In the Limelight

2008-06-07 Thread Michael Foster
Jones wrote: This is the page that mentions the way that the characteristic greenish color of the light was obtained, with some other interesting stuff. http://www.chem.leeds.ac.uk/delights/texts/Demonstration_19.htm Apparently the greenish color occurs when the oxygen is cut-off or