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Post by **Kisa** » 02-06-2005 16:19

<----- Annanagram

Does this mean Nicky's race could have used magic to make themselves unvulnerable by the power of gold?

Then these goldpieces were poison for Nicky!

And for you, they are at least dangerous. We should dispose them and search for uncontaminated gold for Nicky!

jooly · Post by **jooly** » 02-06-2005 16:21

<----Angelica

That's my thinking, after all, she is sleeping a lot and finding it hard to keep down.

Nicky · Post by **Nicky** » 02-06-2005 16:24

*snore*

Post by **Kisa** » 02-06-2005 16:26

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And there she's sleeping again ...

Do you have any possibility to chemically split these things into their 2 metals in your lab? So that we get a block of iron and a block of "clean" gold? Don't know how to describe what I mean ...

jooly · Post by **jooly** » 02-06-2005 16:32

<----Angelica

I've found this paper

http://ej.iop.org/links/q24/JxyQFyFx,BH ... 7p1258.pdf

and I shall have a look and see if I can find anything useful in it. I don't have an oven than reaches a high enough temperature to melt this, though.

jooly · Post by **jooly** » 02-06-2005 16:39

<----Angelica

For Au, Walker (1970) has shown that Fe is removed from Au
wire when annealed at a temperature close to the melting point in a Clz atmosphere.
The explanation for this is that both AuCl and AuCI,, which are formed over the
temperature range 150 i T S 280 T, become unstable above 300 T and decompose.
Thus the chlorine leaves the gold unaffected above 300 ‘C (AuCI and AuCI, decompose
at 289.5 C and 265 ’C respectively). On the other hand, ferric and ferrous
chlorides are stable and volatile above this temperature; FeC13 boils at 319 ‘C and
FeCI, sublimes above this temperature. Practically, the gold is heated in vacuum till
above 300 -C and subsequently Cl, is allowed to enter the vacuum system, thereby
evaporating the Fe-Cl compounds. The method has been practised on Au wires with
diameters of 100 and 80 pm by Walker (1970) and Kopp (1975) respectively.

I don't think I have the equipment for this, this is a biology lab. All that chlorine sounds nasty. Sorry.

supamom · Post by **supamom** » 02-06-2005 17:04

*appearsintheblinkofaneye*

Angelica, i have such a lab with the required equipment and contents on my home world, i can take you there if it would help, but you will have to research in 10 minute bursts as you couldn't survive the atmosphere there for much longer than that, unless you have a quaranteen suit and a bottle of oxygen for you to breath!

jooly · Post by **jooly** » 02-06-2005 17:10

<----Angelica

Well, this isn't really my area of expertise, and this experiment sounds too dangerous to get wrong. I don't suppose there's a chemist in our midst?

Nicky · Post by **Nicky** » 02-06-2005 18:12

*yawn*

What we need to do is....
*looksaround*
I fell asleep again didnt I?

Post by **Kisa** » 02-06-2005 18:34

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Yes, you did. What do we need to do in your eyes?

Nicky · Post by **Nicky** » 02-06-2005 18:37

Well i thought that filtering out the impurities in the gold would be a good solution but you've probably already had that idea.

Speaking of eyes, is there any chance that I could have my other eye back?
The lack of depth perception is quite annoying *giggle*

Post by **Kisa** » 02-06-2005 18:39

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*whispertoAngelica* Where did we leave that second eye you produced? Did we give it to supamom's hands?

supamom · Post by **supamom** » 02-06-2005 20:41

I have the other eye back on my home world Nicky, but i think seeing as Angelica re-produced it for you, it should be her decision as to whether or not I give it to you. Angelica, let me have that gold in that bottle, and i will see if someone from my homeworld can annalyse it for us.

Post by **Kisa** » 02-06-2005 21:02

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And your face would look better with two eyes, too, Nicky!

Post by **Kisa** » 03-06-2005 08:02

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Btw, supamom, if I remember correctly, ToTo wanted to come back these days, but there is this forest surrounding us. Can you see whether he stands on the other side of the trees? Or can you hear him calling from there?