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- From: nuke@reed.edu (Bill Newcomb)
- Newsgroups: sci.chem
- Subject: Re: free alkali metals
- Message-ID: <1993Jan25.021758.25556@reed.edu>
- Date: 25 Jan 93 02:17:58 GMT
- Article-I.D.: reed.1993Jan25.021758.25556
- References: <1993Jan24.193457.7358@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> <1993Jan25.001014.19062@reed.edu> <1993Jan24.195440.19756@husc15.harvard.edu>
- Organization: Reed College, Portland, OR
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- blom@husc15.harvard.edu writes:
- >In article <1993Jan25.001014.19062@reed.edu>, nuke@reed.edu (Bill Newcomb) writes:
- >> I haven't ever had to actually buy sodium, as it seems to be omnipresent in
- >> most reasearch labs. I would wager that it's pretty cheap.
-
- >Cheap, yes, but not free... :)
-
- Have you priced a current supply lately? Melting the NaCl alone would use
- several hundred watts. You just can't beat economies of scale when it comes
- to chemicals that aren't USP or otherwise in need of extreme purity.
-
- Bill
-
- P.S. You might try trimming the included text next time. People will love
- you for it.
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