reagent grade nacl is too pricey for throwing under tires- much better used for various biological buffers, the use of which will get me the hell out of grad school. also, i think the boss would kill me for that. i called parking to complain this morning and they threw salt down and made two nice melted tracks for my tires. the ice under the rest of the front end of the car hadn't melted, so i'm glad they did that.
At least you didn't try to kill ants with full strength Nitric Acid like one of the Post-Docs did when I was in grad school. They had to evacuate the lab.
Wouldn't nitrogen triiodide be useful to break up the ice?:boom:Or is that just freshman technology?...
ni3... probably couldn't get it out to the ice before it decomposed! bang! pat, the hospital cafeteria might frown upon me going and stealing a salt shaker or 4.
Yikes! You know there are not any masks you can wear that are effective against Nitric Acid - got that straight from the 3M Filter Mask 800 number. You need a full Scott AirPack. We had a situation once where passivated stainless steel parts were being cooked indoors, and even the very very small amount of Nitric Acid they were giving off was real nasty. They had to but in a hood over the Ovens.
Yes, they had to call in the Haz Mat people if I recall correctly. Considering the guy had a PhD, he wasn't really the sharpest tool in the shed. I left the lab sometime after that incident - I told my adviser that I was concerned about my safety, but that wasn't the only reason - my adviser was somewhat ethically challenged, and I really didn't want to work for him any more.
I need to get my patent finalized for traction sand injections for Prii. Kinda like railroad traction sand injection, we'd have a reservior of dry sand that could be fed through tubs and deposited in front of / under / behind the front wheels. The traction system would be able to call on this system -- or if you don't trust Toyota TC, we could just put a button the dash. The tube would be too small for cat scat, though.....
Do you think this is what the parking lot looked like: Actually, I took this photo this evening on the shore of Lake Michigan. This is what the lake looks like now. Tom
This part is solid. Just over the humps are ice caves, and then broken ice which is moving. Here is a look over the top at the moving ice: Tom
That looks a bit more like what I saw in Chicago although the water looks liquid between the sheets of ice. What I saw looked like a slush on top. It may be the angle of the light in your shot makes the water look clean of slush. I must say the appearance of the partly frozen lake took me by surprise!
The liquid part is free of slush. It all depends on wind, waves, and temperature. In this case the broken ice was mostly big chunks and not the slushy stuff. In a few hours all could be different. Btw, I nearly killed myself getting that photo. For an ice climber, you would think that I would be smart enough to wear crampons, but I was wearing plain old slippery boots. Next time it's crampons and ice axes. Tom
I heard on the news this morning that on Lake Erie there were about 500 ice fishermen marooned on a broken-off, loose piece of ice.
