Re: Weight & mass question


"cnctut" <cnctutwiler@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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| Ben Newsam wrote:
| > On Sun, 20 Aug 2006 13:42:54 GMT, "Sorcerer"
| > <Headmaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
| > >"cnctut" <cnctutwiler@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
| > >news:1156050446.429728.261790@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
| > >| I'm sure we've come a long way since the old shoe store X-ray
| > >| machines--and those X-ray glasses sold years ago on the back page of
| > >| comics. ;-))
| > >
| > >Egads... if you remember those then you are not so young anymore.
| > >Still, it was fun wiggling green metatarsals and phalanges.
| >
| > I remember them. They were banned because of being dangerous. I have
| > often wondered just how dangerous they were, my little tootsies were
| > shoved into one of those several times.
| >
| > --
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| //
| Ben,
|
| I don't know how dangerous they were--my feet still look
| normal--perhaps the risk was more for employees who work around the
| machines. I did see one recently that was still being used at the foot
| doctors office (when my wife broke her foot.) Not sure they had any
| practical value for selling shoes, other than as a sales gimmic--but I
| never sold shoes--so I don't know for sure. I would like to have one in
| the garage for various projects I'll never get to.
|
| If everything is as dangerous as some suggest--mercury, lead etc--I
| should have been dead years ago. I experimented as a child with all
| that stuff--vapors, touching, etc. Now one drop of mercury shutsdown a
| school until HAZMAT cleans it up.
|
| Best Wishes,

LOL! And I was heating a red powder (mercuric oxide) in a test tube
at school, then shoved a glowing splint in to see it light up because
that is what the teacher asked us to do. Cute, too, to see a drop of
mercury form. Not even safety goggles.

Emergency Overview
--------------------------
DANGER! MAY BE FATAL IF SWALLOWED. HARMFUL IF INHALED OR ABSORBED THROUGH
SKIN. CAUSES SEVERE IRRITATION TO EYES, SKIN AND RESPIRATORY TRACT; MAY
CAUSE BURNS. MAY CAUSE ALLERGIC SKIN REACTION. MERCURY COMPOUNDS AFFECT THE
KIDNEYS AND CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM. OXIDIZER. CONTACT WITH OTHER MATERIAL
MAY CAUSE FIRE.

Well, I wasn't about to eat it, but sheesh... I had a better education than
kids
today. No wonder they turn to vandalism for amusement.

Androcles



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