Home ScienceHave you split the atom in your kitchen? Made your own fireworks? Fired a bacon rocket through your window?
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chthonic, Thu 9 Aug 2012, 17:25)
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You know when you microwave CD's...It produces Cyanide gas.
Recordable CD's consist of an organic dye that can be etched with a laser. Its this layer that can release cyanide when heated.
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Maffers I flow kinda strange like Spina Bifida footprints, Sat 11 Aug 2012, 0:00,
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Nope, didn't know that.I've actually never microwaved a CD, only seen the YouTube vids of it. But I have seen what happens when you have a gold-edged plate in a microwave, and heard my mum screeching about the vaporised metal all over the porcelain surface of said plate...
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The Resident Loon Not a demographic. Do not measure., Sat 11 Aug 2012, 2:11,
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