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Today: The Search for Raw Materials
When I sift through the litter in a cat box, I’m not looking for silicon (even if it’s there).
Silicon: A component of explosives used in the automotive industry to trigger airbags.
It’s actually a miracle that a cat box has never exploded. And just imagine—right in the middle of doing your business
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P.S.:
Why did the Russians send a dog (Leika) into space instead of a cat?
Simply because the cat's carrier posed too great a risk of explosion.
(22-05-2026, 10:16 PM)Aga Tentakulus Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Silicon: A component of explosives used in the automotive industry to trigger airbags.
I think you got the wrong chemistry there.
But just so that you won't fall asleep easily at night, the mixture of oxygen, nitrogen, and water vapor in the atmosphere is thermodynamically unstable. Those substances should react spontaneously to form nitric acid HNO3, with release of energy. That does not happen only because the N2 molecule is extremely hard to crack. But if someone somewhere found a suitable catalyst...
All the best atmosphere, while we have one -- stolfi
Silizium (Silicium) wird in der Sprengstofftechnik hauptsächlich in zwei Formen genutzt: als hochexplosiver Siliziumschwamm (Nano-Sprengstoff) und als Zusatzstoff in militärischen Sprengmischungen. [You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view., You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view., You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.]
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Silicon is used in explosives technology primarily in two forms: as highly explosive silicon sponge (nano-explosive) and as an additive in military explosive mixtures. [1, 2, 3]
(23-05-2026, 12:55 AM)Jorge_Stolfi Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. (22-05-2026, 10:16 PM)Aga Tentakulus Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Silicon: A component of explosives used in the automotive industry to trigger airbags.
But just so that you won't fall asleep easily at night, the mixture of oxygen, nitrogen, and water vapor in the atmosphere is thermodynamically unstable. Those substances should react spontaneously to form nitric acid HNO3, with release of energy. That does not happen only because the N2 molecule is extremely hard to crack. But if someone somewhere found a suitable catalyst...
All the best atmosphere, while we have one -- stolfi
Very tangential, but in a novel of John W. Campbell, I think You are not allowed to view links.
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Heute, wenn zwei das gleiche tun ist es dennoch nicht das selbe.
Beispiel: In Thailand ist eine Suppe aus gekochten Schwalbennestern eine teure Delikatesse.
Wenn ich eine Suppe aus Hühnernestern koche, dann will es kein Mensch haben.
Vielleicht ist es nur ein Problem des PR.
Fragen wird doch einfach unseren Auslandkoresponenten.
Sorry.
These days, even when two people do the same thing, it’s still not quite the same.
For example: In Thailand, soup made from boiled swallow nests is an expensive delicacy.
If I make soup from chicken nests, no one wants it.
Maybe it’s just a PR issue.
Let’s just ask our foreign correspondent.
(14-06-2026, 12:21 AM)Aga Tentakulus Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.For example: In Thailand, soup made from boiled swallow nests is an expensive delicacy.
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Let’s just ask our foreign correspondent.
I don't eat that :-)
It's more Chinese than Thai.
Agreed on your chicken nest soup :-)
(14-06-2026, 12:21 AM)Aga Tentakulus Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Knowledge with Aga
Heute, wenn zwei das gleiche tun ist es dennoch nicht das selbe.
Beispiel: In Thailand ist eine Suppe aus gekochten Schwalbennestern eine teure Delikatesse.
Wenn ich eine Suppe aus Hühnernestern koche, dann will es kein Mensch haben.
Vielleicht ist es nur ein Problem des PR.
Fragen wird doch einfach unseren Auslandkoresponenten.
Sorry.
These days, even when two people do the same thing, it’s still not quite the same.
For example: In Thailand, soup made from boiled swallow nests is an expensive delicacy.
If I make soup from chicken nests, no one wants it.
Maybe it’s just a PR issue.
Let’s just ask our foreign correspondent.
Voynich special: Swallowtail soup...