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Gold/Mining/Energy : A Little Forum For Gold Microclusters

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To: Josephus who wrote (71)9/4/1997 8:09:00 PM
From: Michael J. Wendell   of 142
 
Jody, My wife is a member of the Birdie Watchers groups. We will have no more talk about "Birds nests on the ground". Lets talk about gold nuggets in the hand or something like that.

I believe the cluster sciences are going to close the gap on learning abourt how the chemistry of how life works. By the way, is it OK to use the term Zintl ion? I am sure that I will be accused of starting something when I tell you it is a naked ion. It will accept no peripheral atoms as attachments. And then there are caged cluster species. A bunch of stable atoms in cluster form that can be physically stable, but with a hollow interior that can cage up something like a gold cluster. " Gold behind bars" I guess if you shake it up a bit, the critter inside will rattle around, but not come out. And then Houston goes on to talk about homo- or hetero atomic. Then there are the central core configurations of atoms. I call them the hard core guys. These later guys can bridge without loosing their bonds. And in the book I am reading it says that this book is too basic for some of the other stuff. Now you know why so many students of chemistry and physics get into cluster chemistry these days. Thats life!

In organic chemistry there is the benzene ring. Metal atoms will form similar rings, but are called clusters. And then there are polycyclic and the least of course is the tricyclic cluster.

Now I ask you, if a polymer is a polymer, but when naked it is a cluster; are there naked polymers? And why are these clusters superconductors and did these scientists get their vohm meter at Radio Shack. You know that the Radio Shack vohm meters have pretty blunt point on the probes. To be able to measure the resistance of a C40 (40 atom configuration) bucky ball, I would thing you would need pretty sharp points on those probes.

In all seriousness, we are in a new age and what we will be opening in the way of new sciences in the next century has to be awesome. And yes, all of you anticubeoctahedron buffs out there, mining will be effected by these science advancements.

"And lets go get the bird nests on the ground first" mike
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