Date: 5 May 2001 04:57:07 GMT From: Michael Hoye Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written.robert-jordan Subject: Re: TAN: Another one for the physicists In article , Chad R. Orzel wrote: >On Fri, 4 May 2001 08:49:48 -0400, "Jennifer Winters" > wrote: > >>"Michael Hoye" wrote: > >>> Just so you know, the slang term "smoking rock" refers to a very specific >>> chemical substance. It does not imply that you should grind up and smoke >>> any hard objects you find lying around. >> >>Hmmm...as a chemist, I wasn't aware that your average mineral was that >>easily oxidizable at the temperatures achieved in your average lit >>cigarette or other smoking implement (not to mention that most >>minerals are oxides anyway). > >You're not using enough liquid oxygen. "I _did_ use a thermos full of liquid oxygen to 'light up' the twenty grams of impure quartz that I had purchased that evening but, your honor, I did not inhale". "Sir, we've had a witness testify that earlier in the evening, they heard you say 'Thank God for ceramic pipes'. Is that testimony accurate?" "I... er..." -- Mike Hoye