chemistry, how i love thee

[spaiku]

let me count the ways. most recently: triacetone triperoxide, an explosive, has the common name "Mother of Satan" because of how fucking unstable it is.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triacetone_triperoxide

"It is one of the few explosives which remain explosive when wet or kept underwater."

"TCAP generally burns when ignited, unconfined, in quantities less than about 2 grams. More than 2 grams will usually detonate when ignited; smaller quantities might detonate when even slightly confined. Completely dry TCAP is much more prone to detonation than the fresh product still wetted with water or acetone."

YES.

Comments

[starlady38.livejournal.com]

Okay, this sounds slightly familiar...you know how Oedipus was exposed? Which makes him a scapegoat, like Jesus was. Scapegoating was very common in the ancient world. But I don't even know the connection between that and the shepherd business. Unless you were going to get into the similarities between the Dionysian rights and Christianity, which are uncanny but not the sort of thing an actual Christian would like. IDEK. Good for your prof! Though I would say that the obvious commonalities do speak to certain undercurrents in ancient societies.

It's the worst when people don't get when the prof is laying the smackdown, because then they don't change their behavior.

Oedipus Rex is the Latin name, and Oidipous Tyrannos is the Greek. Same difference, though most people say Oedipus Rex. Of course the irony is that he is king by blood, and doesn't know it, but it was my understanding that the τυραννος came from the fact that he was ruling without justice because he'd murdered his father.

[spaiku.livejournal.com]

no, the kid was saying that this was an example of the pastoral trope because they literally bring the shepherd in and torture him for information, so someone out of the society had insight/wisdom that no one inside of it did. which jesus is also an example of, to him. but our prof said that the pastoral trope didn't come about until the 16th(? i forget which exactly) century.

[starlady38.livejournal.com]

Yeah, the pastoral is a Renaissance genre. WTF.

Seriously, what.

[spaiku.livejournal.com]

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article6721081.ece

roooofl (sort of)


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[starlady38.livejournal.com]

Jellyfish ice cream makes Electra ;__;

And I've eaten some weird ice cream in my day.

Thnx for the link.

[spaiku.livejournal.com]

why so sad(ious)? cause you wanna eat it or cause you sad for the poor lil' jellies?

[starlady38.livejournal.com]

They're not little. And it sounds wrong.

[spaiku.livejournal.com]

haha, i know they're not little... but it's for RESEARCH h-san!