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|    Jaimie Vandenbergh to els.dallas@gmail.com    |
|    Re: Potential torch drives    |
|    04 Jan 19 20:47:31    |
      From: jaimie@sometimes.sessile.org              On Fri, 4 Jan 2019 11:44:34 -0800 (PST), els.dallas@gmail.com wrote:              >2 percent aqueous solution is 2 uranium tetrabromide (557.645 atomic mass       units) molecules per 100 h20 (18 atomic mass units) molecules.              You are free to do a Humpty Dumpty and use existing words to mean whever       you like, but if you wish to communicate - or base your calculations on       something defined in the usual manner - then you probably shouldn't.              This is a highly unorthodox usage of "percent solution".              >Since you can't do simple math, I'll ignore the rest of your post.              Feel free. I hear it is bliss.               Cheers - Jaimie       --       I always wanted to be someone. I should have been more specific.        -- Lily Tomlin              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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