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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.
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4 comments:

  1. AnonymousSeptember 19, 2011 at 10:40:00 AM PDT

    Presumably those are 700 degrees F ;-)

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  2. Chuck PergielSeptember 19, 2011 at 11:16:00 AM PDT

    I think it's Kelvins, actually.

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  3. AnonymousSeptember 19, 2011 at 12:43:00 PM PDT

    Absolutely zeroes my F-ing pun then :-(

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  4. Chuck PergielSeptember 19, 2011 at 4:26:00 PM PDT

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

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