dumb battery question

Apr 14, 2006 29 Replies

Conversion of the raw metal ores into metal. Takes a *lot* of energy.

Most metals (gold is an exception) don't like to remain metal - in our wet, oxygen atmosphere, they will revert to the ore phase.

IIRC, potassium hydroxide (alkaline base) as the electrolyte in alkaline batteries.

Madman

As you are unable to read I shall parse the reply for you. The term was "sir" of which you are not worthy. FK

Oh, well... Your opinion as to whether I can read or not and my worthiness to be addressed as "sir", by you, is really of little consequense. What does matter, I believe, is the technical content of both of my posts, which refutes the idea that rubbing a glass rod with a piece of rabbit fur in order to generate a static charge is anything like touching a piece of copper to a piece of zinc in order to generate a dirrect current, which was the topic of the thread. But you don\'t want to go there, do you?

The charging took place when they refined the copper and the zinc, and from the lemon tree turning sunlight, air, and water into citric and ascorbic acids. ;-)

Cheers! Rich

Too impatient to unwrap the chololate coin? ;-)

Cheers! Rich

I thought that someone used a sawed off double barrel shotgun to off that hairy little pest?

Service to my country? Been there, Done that, and I\'ve got my DD214 to prove it. Member of DAV #85. Michael A. Terrell Central Florida

If one is around 12 years old, and a friend says "try chewing on some aluminum foil", 9 out of 10 people will try it. As I, er, as ONE grows older and knows better, one still retains the memory of the fooish stuff I--I mean ONE--did as a youngster.

Mark

I heard that someone put the little Energizer Bunny's batteries in backward, then, instead of going and going and going, the little bunny kept coming and coming and coming until he died from sexual exhaustion.

Some choclate is packed in foil,and does not come of easely.(Example: had some small easter eggs this weekend which were packed that way )

Then there's the ever-popular "last stick of gum in the pack that's been sitting on the dashboard melting and re-hardening until the foil won't come off and you don't notice that you didn't get all of it until you chomp down on it" event.

I think my "best score" on that one was about a 6 foot leap sideways as I bit down on the tinfoil that was stuck to the gum, and instantly got hit in the side of the head by an invisible baseball bat (swung by an equally invisible assailant), to the accompaniment of the world's biggest flashbulb going off inside my head, and a sound like Gallagher schmucking a watermelon on a bass drum.

Nothing like a jolt of electricity straight to the brain via the mouth...

Needless to say, I won't touch a stick of gum that doesn't "peel clean" on the first try anymore!

Don Bruder - dakidd@sonic.net - If your "From:" address isn\'t on my whitelist, or the subject of the message doesn\'t contain the exact text "PopperAndShadow" somewhere, any message sent to this address will go in the garbage without my ever knowing it arrived. Sorry... for more info

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