[time-nuts] Conducting Bench Top Material

J. Forster jfor at quik.com
Sun Jan 31 04:04:47 UTC 2010


Among chemists, it's flour of sulpher. Flowers is an (incorrect & archeic)
popular name, like quicksilver.

-John

===========

> It is known (for whatever reason) as flowers of sulphur by gardeners
> medical practitioners (althernative and conventional) and others outside
> the US.
> http://www.websters-online-dictionary.org/fl/flower+of+sulphur.html
>
> http://mysite.du.edu/~jcalvert/phys/sulphur.htm
> <http://mysite.du.edu/%7Ejcalvert/phys/sulphur.htm>
>
> It is a powder produced by sublimation of sulphur.
>
> Bruce
>
> J. Forster wrote:
>> It's NOT "flowers" it "flour" of sulphur...  as in a fine ground
>> powder...
>> think wheat flour as is used to bake bread.
>>
>> -John
>>
>> ===============
>>
>>
>>> If one is paranoid about mercury spills sprinkling the debris with
>>> flowers of sulphur is a good idea especially if one intends to
>>> repeatedly break CFLs in the same location.
>>>
>>> Bruce
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> _______________________________________________
>>> time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts at febo.com
>>> To unsubscribe, go to
>>> https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts
>>> and follow the instructions there.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts at febo.com
>> To unsubscribe, go to
>> https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts
>> and follow the instructions there.
>>
>>
>
>
>





More information about the time-nuts mailing list