I know, the only reason i mentioned it here was because it was mentioned in the second part of the update in this thread...
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Oh, I just remembered something I wanted to ask about. Is "perspex" just a British term for plastic, or are the two somewhat overlapping but not quite congruent concepts?
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It's a tradename for polymethyl methacrylate (PMMA) plastic, also known as acrylic or Plexiglass.
I tried to make Christmas presents out of it one year and failed miserably. I've still got the chunk I pried out of the bottom of the beaker three weeks after the solvent had evaporated. There's a notch in it where the magnetic stir bar was. I've got another irregular chunk with bits of wax paper in it where I couldn't pry them out of the folds. FYI, wax paper makes a terrible mould. /the more you know |
Aw man, you had to get that stupid "The More You Know" ringtone stuck in my head, didn't you?
Plexiglass, okay. |
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>_> <_< No one else wears perspex socks, then? |
Only when we break our ankles. Which I haven't by the way.
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I had forgotten that it's only Gallifrey that makes *everything* out of perspex. |
Whoa! Kryptonite really wouldn't work on Clark.
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Whoa. Well, that's what happens when you give plausable chemical names to fictional materials. At least dilithium's "systematic name" of 2(5)6 dilithium 2(:)l diallosilicate 1:9:1 heptoferranide is impossible to actually achieve (I think).
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That systematic name doesn't conform to any system I know of.
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I suppose that was the point. To make it impossible to create a conflict.
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