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The Amazing Rusting Aluminum (WWII commandos may have sabotaged Nazi planes with this trick)
periodictable.com | Popular Science ^
| 10/1/04
| Theodore Gray
Posted on 08/26/2008 11:54:33 AM PDT by LibWhacker
TOPICS: History; Military/Veterans; Science
KEYWORDS: aluminum; commandos; mercury; rusting
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To: LibWhacker
Bump to read later. Looks interesting.
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posted on
08/26/2008 11:57:19 AM PDT
by
techcor
To: LibWhacker
I'm surprised that the environmentally hysterical Popular Science editors were willing to waste aluminum for the mere benefit of a demonstration.
To: LibWhacker
Better living through modern chemistry.
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posted on
08/26/2008 12:01:29 PM PDT
by
Cvengr
(Adversity in life and death is inevitable. Thru faith in Christ, stress is optional.)
To: LibWhacker
So you could just fly over parked enemy aircraft and spray them with a mist, instead of dropping explosives?
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posted on
08/26/2008 12:07:30 PM PDT
by
LZ_Bayonet
(There's Always Something.............And there's always something worse!)
To: LibWhacker
Thanks PM for upping the threat matrix level from islamofascists!
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posted on
08/26/2008 12:08:49 PM PDT
by
catman67
To: indcons
Looks like something for the military history ping list.
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posted on
08/26/2008 12:12:28 PM PDT
by
Kevmo
(A person's a person, no matter how small. ~Horton Hears a Who)
To: LibWhacker
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posted on
08/26/2008 12:13:15 PM PDT
by
chrisser
(The Two Americas: Those that want to be coddled, Those that want to be left the hell alone.)
To: Red Badger
Not to mention all the rusty ol’ Mercurys you see around...
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posted on
08/26/2008 12:14:46 PM PDT
by
Hegemony Cricket
(Vigilantism will arise where the justice system is viewed as overly lenient and/or ineffective.)
To: LZ_Bayonet
Hogan!
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posted on
08/26/2008 12:16:20 PM PDT
by
edzo4
(Vote McCain, Keep Your Change)
To: Hegemony Cricket
We have our aluminum parts anodized or cad plated or alodined to stop corrosion............
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posted on
08/26/2008 12:22:48 PM PDT
by
Red Badger
(All that carbon in all that oil and coal was once in the atmosphere. We're just putting it back.....)
To: LZ_Bayonet
Mercury is extremely heavy - I read where German U-Boats used it for ballast. They would move it forward or backwards to help the boat dive faster. I doubt you could mist it either. At any altitude the droplets would crash through most material. Good point on this is “The Day Of The Jackal” where the guy put mercury in the bullet to increase its shattering power inside the body. Closets thing to that today are Glaser Safeties.
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posted on
08/26/2008 12:23:07 PM PDT
by
SkyDancer
("What Our Enemies Couldn't Do To Us Our Liberal Democrat Politicians Will")
To: LibWhacker
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posted on
08/26/2008 12:31:47 PM PDT
by
Dead Dog
To: LibWhacker
Well I learned something new today.
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posted on
08/26/2008 12:39:14 PM PDT
by
stevio
(Crunchy Con - God, guns, guts, and organically grown crunchy nuts.)
To: SunkenCiv
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posted on
08/26/2008 12:42:18 PM PDT
by
MHGinTN
(Believing they cannot be deceived, they cannot be convinced when they are deceived.)
To: LibWhacker
I don’t believe the commando story. If they got close enough the spread mercury on the planes, then they would get close enough to put a small bomb in the plane that would explode when the altitude reached 500 feet or so. Killing the pilot with the plane. Or if they feared the bomb would be discovered, just place a bomb in the plane with a timer to explode in half an hour or so.
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posted on
08/26/2008 12:57:53 PM PDT
by
Blood of Tyrants
(G-d is not a Republican. But Satan is definitely a Democrat.)
To: ConservativeMind
I'm surprised that the environmentally hysterical Popular Science editors were willing to waste aluminum for the mere benefit of a demonstration.The aluminum hasn't been wasted; it hasn't "vanished." It's still there, waiting to be recovered chemically.
Regards,
To: LibWhacker
So mercury filled paintballs could really wreak havoc .
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posted on
08/26/2008 1:18:08 PM PDT
by
aruanan
To: alexander_busek
Indeed, but something that took a fair amount of work to create has been destroyed and made a HazMat zone...
To: stevio
Me, too! Makes me want to go out and break an old thermometer over some tinfoil and see what happens.
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