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vials with arsenic found lying beside the road in the Dutch city Nijmegen
If any of you ordered some arsenic recently but it failed to arrive, here is why:
http://www.gelderlander.nl/regio/nijmegen-e-o/nijmegen/hardl...
A runner found the bottles lying beside the road. The fire department decided that because they were well packed they were not really dangerous, took
them away and they are now trying to find out of course what happened.
And the journalist that wrote the linked article miscalculated the deadly dose by a factor of about a 1000, as usual. sigh.
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aga
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Why Oh Why can Ebay not get it's act together ?!?!?!?!
Search -> Find Item -> Payment -> Package Item -> Post to Client
It is THAT Simple !
That's the LAST time i will order from Ebay.
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Texium
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It would be pretty great to find that much 99.9999% pure arsenic just sitting on the side of the road like that. It would be a real shame if they
destroy it.
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j_sum1
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There is a better than miniscule chance that it was lost in transit en route to an SM member somewhere.
Maybe quantumcorespacealchemyst?? Check the vicinity for some palladium, some cadmium, some gold and dysprosium.
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@zts16
Nuclear physics is not my forte but I don't think it is possible to actually destroy an element. 
[Edited on 29-9-2016 by j_sum1]
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Texium
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Quote: Originally posted by j_sum1  | @zts16
Nuclear physics is not my forte but I don't think it is possible to actually destroy an element. |
That's true, thank you for pointing that out, oh pedantic one 
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Well, you could collide it with some anti-arsenic. That should do the trick 
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Any bit of antimatter would do, actually.
Please remember: "Filtrate" is not a verb.
Write up your lab reports the way your instructor wants them, not the way your ex-instructor wants them.
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