Derek moved to Science: http://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/
His last Things I Won't Work With was September 2016: http://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/category/things-i-wont-work-wi th Dave > -----Original Message----- > From: time-nuts [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf > Of Mark Sims > Sent: Friday, October 28, 2016 20:26 > 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.
