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Ahhh - the song of the amateur.
They try all sorts of solvents and found one that works - from the list mentioned, our speaker apparently hasn't every studied coordination chemistry. With knowledge of what they were looking for, they'd have sought (in the literature, first!) organic solvent that do not react with sodium and do form coordination complexes (particularly w/Group IIa metals).
For those with historical interests, Napoleon once served his guests on Aluminum dishes, which at the time, was more impressive then, for example, gold dishes. The Hall Process (electrolysis of molten salts) had yet to be invented. "If memory serves me", they used what is effectively the Goldschmidt process (familiar to lovers of Thermit) on aluminum oxide using potassium metal.
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Very impressive! 
/ravi
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But Chris says he cannot stand Lenovo makes :/
Lenovo does make cheap ones but I believe, they've managed to keep up the honor for Thinkpad series. 
Starting to think people post kid pics in their profiles because that was the last time they were cute - Jeremy Falcon.
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Has the tool ever become an object of desire in any other industry?
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Ever seen US cops comparing guns?
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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My reply only suitable for soapbox.
Peter Wasser
"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts." - Bertrand Russell
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May be the "Dating" industry , with Cortana.. 
Starting to think people post kid pics in their profiles because that was the last time they were cute - Jeremy Falcon.
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Yes, construction friends talking about hammers...Though mostly it was which one was big enough for the person that designed something. 
Common sense is admitting there is cause and effect and that you can exert some control over what you understand.
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I can identify a (fairly used at least) Thinkpad looking at nothing but the screen. My wife has had two of them over the years and both developed an annoying circle in the middle of the screen.
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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I have one in my office - it's our spare backup laptop (long story).
Cannot stand the thing.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Chris Maunder wrote: it's our spare backup laptop (long story)
Please do think about writing your experience with Thinkpads, may be I'm over relying on them. Don't know
Starting to think people post kid pics in their profiles because that was the last time they were cute - Jeremy Falcon.
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Got a T61, about 8 or 9 years old, traveled a lot. This year, the Nvidia chip died, known weakness. Bought a new system board for about $20, Intel graphics, an afternoon of installation. Like new.
Runs Linux and Windows fine, SSD sped it up considerably.
Edit: oops, used system board
Arguing with a woman is like reading the Software License Agreement. In the end, you ignore everything and click "I agree".
Anonymous
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A lot of that goes to show just how varied desired use cases are. Peter sings praises for the nub pointer which market share has shown to be a very niche desire. He's also fallen in love with the touchscreen; something that would be near impossible in my case. Even ignoring the twin cancers that are glarey screens and fingerprints on them, a laptop on its own is cripled by a single small display and fit only for watching cattube videos and clicking upvote buttons. once multiple real (22"+) displays are attached the laptops intrinsic one is only fit for low bandwidth activities like slack which has minimal use for a touch screen; while the real work is done on almost certainly touchless screens.
I think the only time i used my laptops touchscreen was when working on a WPF controls touch interactions and not wanting to try running VS on the target platforms atom CPU. 
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Hurricane Irma is expected to hit Florida sometimes in the next 24 hours; from there, the projected path is up through the state, then Georgia and Tennessee.
However, adjoining states: Alabama, South Carolina and North Carolina, while not in the direct path, will have rain and sustained winds.
I live in South Carolina, have co-workers in Florida and North Carolina; please take a moment to think about the people affected. Things can be replaced, people can't.
As of right now, my area is expecting rain and wind to start on Monday, last until sometime Tuesday. Forecast is 2 to 4 inches of rain, but sustained winds of 15 - 20 miles per hour and gusts up to 50 miles per hour. This will break trees and cause multiple, extended power outages. The trees are a concern for my family because our house is surrounded by 60 foot oak trees.
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I live in North Florida, Jacksonville and it is projected to come very close to us on its migration north. Looks like sustained winds of 70 to 80 mph, if so everything I have will be gone.
Someone's therapist knows all about you!
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My wife and me where in Florida Key West in 19xx, I don't remember exactly. We were of course tourists, but anybody helped us to survive the disaster.
PLEASE take care of yourself now!
modified 19-Jan-21 21:04pm.
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Tim Carmichael wrote: Things can be replaced, people can't.
Management seems to take the opposite view, more often than not. 
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Since management believes people are things(*), all things are therefore replaceable.
(*) Two f***ing words: Human. Resources.
Software Zen: delete this;
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I'm about 85 miles due north of Panama City, FL. and expecting about the same conditions as you. I fully expect power outages and some flooding around the area Monday pm and Tuesday. I've got family in Miami and Orlando who will likely be hit harder if the thing goes where they are predicting...and so far, all the models have been wrong as it seems hell bent on getting into the Gulf of Mexico...good for the eastern side, very bad for the western side!
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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Tim Carmichael wrote: adjoining states: Alabama... while not in the direct path,
Not anymore. Hurricane Irma - Hurricane 2017 - AccuWeather.com[^]
There are two kinds of people in the world: those who can extrapolate from incomplete data.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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Country musician Troy Gentry killed in N.J. helicopter crash[^]
![Rose | [Rose]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/rose.gif) 
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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And Don Williams died, too. 
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