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To: Lazarus_Long who wrote (274)	3/18/2002 7:09:07 PM
From: thames_sider	Read Replies (2) of 493

I'd have been far worse at hard science than IT. At least programs don't have to have experiments written up afterwards, and once they work you know where the problems are... Phosgene's easiest by heating Cl2 gas over carbon black in limited oxygen, or with CO gas. Or, helpfully, whilst cleaning a furnace with chlorine (as one does). I never found out how my friend made it in the lab with minimal preparation. My favourite quick experiment was making Fe(VI) compounds. They weren't very stable, they were the only things I made which oxidised so fiercely they spontaneously cracked a clay petri dish. BTW, I just located the little chemistry book which had these gems in. I'm not saying it's ancient, but its got the periodic table laid out in a 'descending tree', there are still two unidentified sub-uranics... and I've never seen element 86 called Niton before :-)

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