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Sunday, September 18, 2011

Quote of the Day

At seven hundred freaking degrees, fluorine starts to dissociate into monoatomic radicals, thereby losing its gentle and forgiving nature. - from an old story on In The Pipeline by Derek Lowe.
Yes, gentle and forgiving flourine, I remember it well.

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Presumably those are 700 degrees F ;-)

Chuck Pergiel said...

I think it's Kelvins, actually.

Anonymous said...

Absolutely zeroes my F-ing pun then :-(

Chuck Pergiel said...

Good thing we had this discussion, otherwise I would never have realized you were making a funny. :-)