Whole-known-network
<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@whitequark" class="u-url mention">@<span>whitequark</span></a></span><br /><a href="https://aus.social/tags/altText4You" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>altText4You</span></a> in the Western Australian desert a group of men shrouded in blue grey dust are shovelling asbestos powder into drums. Onlookers stand around. Everyone is wearing shorts and white shirts. Caption: workers shovel raw blue asbestos tailings into drums at an asbestos shovelling competition at Wittenoom in the Pilbara W.A. 1962</p><p>A third of the workers who passed through Wittenoom ended up dying slowly and horribly from mesothelioma and lung cancer. If you are ever tempted to think that people are unfairly critical of Gina Rhinehart just remember where her money came from. It was her father Lang Hancock who became Australia's richest man off the back of that cursed place.</p><p><a href="https://youtu.be/UWFqFMnonjY" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">youtu.be/UWFqFMnonjY</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@whitequark" class="u-url mention">@<span>whitequark</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://infosec.exchange/@0xabad1dea" class="u-url mention">@<span>0xabad1dea</span></a></span> Somehow that's worse...</p>
<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://infosec.exchange/@0xabad1dea" class="u-url mention">@<span>0xabad1dea</span></a></span> that's just the click of a switch. like a normal domestic electrical switch</p>
<p>Nyaan and Nyaang</p>
<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.online/@resistor" class="u-url mention">@<span>resistor</span></a></span> there are... reasons</p>
<p>I started writing some body horror about dropping Kirby in your bathtub and it turns out he's a bath ball and he dissolves while smiling the whole while, but everything I came up with was too horrible to post</p>
<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@whitequark" class="u-url mention">@<span>whitequark</span></a></span> “… books [posts] that told me everything about the wasp [metallurgy], except why.”</p>
<p>key points:<br />- dry every part of the apparatus that will be heated (crucible, reagents, enclosure) for 4h at 150 degC<br />- use lots of NaCl flux<br />- fill crucible with argon before closing it<br />- feed argon into the enclosure from the bottom</p><p>things to improve:<br />- mix NaCl flux with MgCl2 for improved wettability of the oxide<br />- cover the top of the enclosure to somewhat reduce the amount of escaping Mg vapor (as well as heat) with an alumina dish<br />- heat it for several minutes to ensure complete melting</p>
<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@whitequark" class="u-url mention">@<span>whitequark</span></a></span> this is very cool. Thank you for sharing.</p>