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Date: 10 Jun 2004
Time: 02:56:51 -0500
Remote Name: 216.192.6.6
Dearest RAtboy - Yes, I did indeed, most categorically, call you ratboy - although christening you might be a more appropriate way to put it in a nutshell (not to be confused with putanesca - soaunds like an ad for Nestea, doesnt it?). Although breaking a jar of peanut butter across your bow might not be quite the thing to do, if you catch my driftbaot. If you have been following the movie themes, you will probably see the link to water gobblets (not to be confused with water gobblins), hunting etehreal angels in The Abyss and the tantilizing quote "Light the lamp, not the rat!". If you see the link to all three, well, then (not to be confused with when, Rin a tin tin, or Tiny Tim). . . . . Hmmm - if you are avoiding seafood, then you will want to stay away from the sea urchin served in finer sushi abodes. And I guess we can count you out (not related to the three strikes rule) of helping pump up demand for Shrimp to boost up international prices so costal Florida shimpermen and their businesses can stay afloat. Pity. They make such fine cocktails and the sauce is quite delicious. . . . Yes, I did miss your "posts which give a pretty good description of who I claim to be, or the places I claim to have been". You could point them out to me, so I can ketchup (the main ingredient in shrimp coatails after the shrimp) on what I have inadvertisemently overlooked. (Bubba Gump and apple stock notwithstanding. ). . . AH, you wanted to know about glamamere. Well, your spelling (not to be confused with Arron or Arno) leaves much to be desired (as opposed to nothing to be or not to bee, that is the buzz), but I do have an inkling of an idea. (Inklings being slightly less than a stroke of genius and a little bit more than a hazherd). Where was I? (yes, that question does pop up often). > . . . Ok, since the inkling sounds better in its orignail format (just as Shakesphere sounds better in its Original Klingon - not to be confused with Klinger on MASH) here it is . . . "PRODUCTION METHODS. The natural sources of metals are ores, minerals from which a metallic [I did mention I could use a few more inches] constituent [not to be confused with a healthy constition] can be extracted. Some ores contain metals in the elemental state - for example gold, platinum, silver and copper. However, most metals occur naturally in positive oxidation states, often as oxides, sulfides, or binary compunds [dont fence me in!] with other group VI elements [hmmm], or as hydroxides or carbonates [whom you do not claim to know]. The metal is then obtained from the ore by chemical or electrolytic [not to be confused with the electorial collage or whigging out] reduction. [new paragrpaph] Metals in the zero-oxidation or native state can be separated [is there such a thing as a sepa rat?] from rocky [not balboa] contaminants by hand or by other simple [not related to bond or 007] means. If the ore contains only a realtively [a bit like kindred] small amount of the metal (a low grade ore) [maybe it needs to attend summer school for the metallically challenged?), chemical extraction methods are often used. Gold is sometimes extracted from ores with mercury. The gold-mercury solution, called an amalgam, is separated from the ore and the mercury is then distilled [as in moonshine] away. Alternatively, the ore may be treated with a cyanide solution in the presence of air. A soluble gold-cyanide complex is formed: 4Au + 8CN_ + O2 +2H20 - - -> $Au(CN)2_ +4OH_ (Eq. 23-1) . . . .Although gold is not normally oxidized by oxygen, the strength of the cyanide complex helps to drive this reaction to the right [no kidding - perhaps that is why most of the world drives on the RHS?]. Similar methods are used with silver ores, including both those containing native silver and those containing its compounds, such as the mineral argentite, Ag2S [not to be confused with Argentina]." . . . Sorry I was so slow in responding. Perhaps the use of a catalyst might be beneficial? In case you need to brush up on exactly what a catalisp is . . . "Many reactions are speeded up by substances that are not themselves permanently [not as in hair salon] changed during the reaction. [Is it just me, or does this sound like one of those was - is - will be kinda thingies?] These substances are called catalysts, a term introduced by Berzelius in the nineteenth century [sounds like a code name for Burly Zeus to me]. The effects are often dramatic. Reactions that proceed immeausrably [isnt there something else that is not measureable floating around??] slowly in the absence of catalysts may go too rapidly to be followed when a catalyst is present [we call them high speed chases, you call them maise]. Many catalysts are effective even when present in almost imperceptibly small amounts [they do seem to have a big thing about measuring small things, dont they??]. Under certain conditions [which have remained nameless to protect the uncattalized], for example, molecule of the enzyme catalase [not to be confused with lazy cattle] can cause the decomposition of 10*5 molecules of hydrogen peroxide [stay out of the hairi salon] every second [but no informatioin is available about stealling third when bunting is just not an option]. In the absence of a catalist, hydrogen perioxide and its solutions can be stored for years. [yippeee!] [new paragraph . . .unrelated to the phonograph or telegraph] Since catalists undergo no permanaent change during the reaction whose rate they are accelerating [not to be confused with celery], they do not appear in the stoichmetric equation for that reaction and can have no effect on the position of the equillibrium. This implies that they must accelerate the reverse reaction by the same factor [not knidread to the hit reality show Fear Factor] by witch [twinkle, twinkle twinkle cound effect] they accelerate the forward reaction, so that [blah blah black sheep, have you any wool?" The highly scintillating text goes on to discuss the foramtion of esters, enzymes which are proteens that catalyze reactions in living systems, and the mode of catalysts (homeogeneous aka in a single phase or heterogeneous aka at an interface between phases)and how catalysts can be regenerated in their original form while more or less simultaneously the final products are formed. Then there is more stuff about van der Walls forces and how catalysts work by lowering the activation energy of a reaction to increase its rate."Some lower the height of the barrier between reactants and products along a path close to that which the uncatalyzed reaction follows. Otheres open quite different pathways, which also have lower barriers than the original path but which are for some reason not accessible in the absence [reminds me of absinthe] of the catalyst. In effect, such catalysts are like the scouts who directed bands [not velevet revolver mind you] of settlers in the Old West [as opposed to the New West or James West or Johnny Quest] to mountain passes that were easier to cross than those first used, thus speeding up the migration to the land beyond the mountains. [new pairagraph] There are substances that slow down cetain reactions, rather [similar to ratboy] than accelerating them. These are called inhibitors or, sometimes, negative catalysts. The latter name is misleading, however, for they are not true catalysts sine they themselves are permanently changed at the same time that they are inhibiting the reaction. True negative catalysts do not exist1. (Footnote 1: There are substanes that can interfere effectively and reversibly with the action of the catalysts, especially with enzymes. If they inhibit the action of the catalyst essentially completely, the net [not related to indras or Indeara (sp) Ghandi] effect is to force the reaction to follow its normal uncatalyzed pathway. They do no, however, diminish [fish, smish] the rate below that of the uncatalyzed reaction." [batteries not included, chew thoroughly before swallowing anything printed by a trueblood and knobler waser]. . . .With prose like this, who needs bedtime poetry? Do mice dream of electic fields of blue? Or pink parasols dotted along a sunny beach, dancing among ice cubes? . . . . There was a thing a long while ago about stock scams where the profits disappeared as soon as they were made, but those sound more like pyramid scheems or volatile markets that sizzled and evaporated before the smoke rose from the pan. I think Too Loose To Trek knew how to hum a few bars of absinthe, which probably gave rise to the idea of "liquor is quicker" but what woulda worm [book or compost] know about that which he could not learn at the bottom of a boottle of tequilla? Is it mearly haydrodynamics that when a door is closed somewhere a window is opened? Why must we climb every mountain? IS the valley greener on the other side or is it just a surveying trip? Hope you found this fool filling . . . Ur me (oh - not to be confused with ermine)