Ah, you might not have meant that for this list. You are a man of many talents.
Dimethyl mercury has given elemental mercury a bad name it doesn't deserve. As a youth, I used it to turn pennies into silvery dimes. Father said he'd ingested a teaspoon to see how fast it would go through him. In his day, beryllium pliers were used around explosives because they were non-sparking. We both lived many years afterwards. People who don't understand the difference between elements and compounds insist that cleaning up after a broken mercury thermometer be done wearing moon suits. So it goes - as time goes by. Bill Hawkins -----Original Message----- From: time-nuts [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Mark Sims Sent: Friday, October 28, 2016 10:26 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [time-nuts] What would be the proper equipment and procedure? I don't know if it the proper way but I used a very nice fume hood. Measured the metals (high purity), melted them in a quartz crucible, stirred with a quartz rod, and cast it in a ceramic block with a spiral pattern machined into it with a ball mill. You don't want to contaminate the mixture with other metals, etc. That "Things I Won't Work With" article was about dimethyl cadmium, not metallic cadmium. Reall Nasty Stuff. Metallic cadmium and cadmium plating has been used for ages without killing too many people. It's not something to take lightly, but I've had the pleasure of working around far worse things. For even more extreme nastiness check out dimethyl mercury... one drop, goes through rubber gloves like they aren't there, sure-fire rather horrible death. Derek Lowe's "Things I Won't Work With" series is some of the best reading out there... Unfortunately, I don't think that he is still doing them. His old web site has disappeared. _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there. _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
