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Originally Posted by Augi
OK... Thermite reactions, like thermite that the military uses, is nothing more than iron oxide (RUST!) mixed with powdered aluminum heated slightly (usually with a magnesium strip).
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If it only needs to be heated slightly, why do they have to use magnesium ribbon? I thought it was used because just using ordinary flame (match, lighter) was not hot enough to ignite it.
IRC was created in Finland in 1989.
Major US breweries (Budweiser, Miller) started brewing with rice during WWII in an attempt to make their beer less strong and therefore more appealing to women, and never switched back, which is one of the reasons their beer is so shitty.
D.A.R.E. (Drug Abuse Resistance Education), a major anti-drug program in the US, defines 'drug' as any substance that alters your perception or behavior. (Then they make sure you know that "soft drugs" are drugs, but fail to mention that that definition also includes things like food.)
Howcome nobody's mentioned that in the other hemisphere, the water in toilet bowls goes the other way? =) Actually I think that's really determined by the direction the water outlets point in your bowl..
The word antihelix has nothing to do with shapes or gemoetry, it's actually a part of your ear.
Does anybody know the average airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow?