I crouched way down to fit under the "You must be this height or less to take this ride" bar at the lab entrance
Would you like some TEA with that? and by TEA, I mean Triethanolamine Ah, behold the power of Wikipedia.
Nah - it's a pretty nasty reagent/solvent I worked with for a couple years. It reacts with water (including moisture in the air, or in lungs) producing hydrochloric acid and sulfur dioxide. The stuff has a strong burning, choking odor, and is not the nicest stuff to expose your system to. I was a research electrochemist, and the thionyl chloride was used as part of the electrolyte in one of the kinds of lithium batteries we were researching.
Translation in my brain: Blah blah yadi yadi yada blah blah blah yadi yadi yada blah blah blah yadi yadi yada blah blah blah yadi yadi yada blah yadi yadi yada blah blah I WANT CHOCOLATE! *wails*
*Grabs collar* Thou shall offer me savouring chocolates for the freedom of shunned secrets... *Hands TEA to sister* You'll feel like a new being.
Post 600! It's only a schedule 3 in the chemical weapons convention... surely it can't be all that bad EDIT: anthraxx... you sister wouldn't feel much of anything after a bit EDIT2: POST 600! Woo!
TEA has wider uses than in chemical weapons. Still, in the current political climate, I feel an urge to look over my shoulder anytim eI mention nearly any useful or reactive chemical. The government seems to think anyone who searches on or mentions certain chemicals is either making bombs, poisons, or drugs. When I was growing up, you could buy a chemistry set in any toy store. I had several.
Indeed. And in addition to what came stocked in the basic chemistry sets, I was able to mail order many many more chemicals by mail with no one raising an eyebrow. I learned a great deal about chemistry long before I could take it in high school.
That...makes it 601. According to a census in Pakistan, about 85% of the adult population here has weapons - illegally. The problem is - the remaining the 15% are trapped because of this.
One hell of a drastic change, eh? Now we've got to take off our shoes at the airport and carry everything in little Ziploc bags. At least we don't have refrigerator factories making tanks.