Comments | thisisaholdup: i had to stick my hand in one of these for class today

thisisaholdup

i had to stick my hand in one of these for class today

Nov 07, 2005 16:46

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mhferrell November 8 2005, 00:08:16 UTC

what the hell? what is that? did you do it on purpose? are you okay?

thisisaholdup November 8 2005, 00:15:01 UTC

it's called a muffle furnace and we had to fuse some rock samples for my analytical techniques class- tomorrow we're going to use an x-ray diffractometer (?????) to analyze some rock samples and it can only analyze things in the liquid state. glass = liquid, so we had to melt the rock powder and then supercool it by taking the magma out of the furnace.

ssstreessssssfuuulllll!

drex_of_doom November 8 2005, 12:19:44 UTC

Watch out for the liquid hot mag-ma.

thisisaholdup November 8 2005, 17:08:02 UTC

my professor was in there with me, and a classmate from another class- and the other guy wasn't wearing closed toe shoes and dr. wulff was like "SWING IT OVER FOR JEREMY!" i thought for sure i would kill him.

lunabee34 November 8 2005, 14:51:58 UTC

That looks like a torture device.

Ugh

thisisaholdup November 8 2005, 17:08:39 UTC

mental torture. apparently we have to do this a total of 4 times- and i was almost in tears the first time- sweet! : - )

anonymous November 9 2005, 07:14:08 UTC

1050 degrees? That's like, what?, one ten Fahrenheit?

-D in C, CA

/Doesn't know conversions anymore
//Still no lj account

thisisaholdup November 9 2005, 14:31:24 UTC

it's something like 1900 F

anonymous November 9 2005, 17:21:27 UTC

Oh.