Comments on: ZINC

By: NikFromNYC

NikFromNYC — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 23:19:41 +0000

Fireworks used to be illegal in NYC, as they still are. But they were tolerated, since one of the biggest boroughs is Chinatown, where you can still buy fake Rolexes and fancy “name brand” handbags, but as of five years ago their sidewalk displays of fireworks were finally cracked down upon. How? In truly Soviet fashion: vans with four horns on top of them, screaming out in Chinese and English that FIREWORKS ARE ILLEGAL. So you have to go to black and hispanic neighborhoods to see a good street show. Luckily I live two blocks from Spanish Harlem. Instead of buying fireworks in a drug-dealer fashion, we just bring beer to give to the kids who are setting the things off. The cops come to make a token “stop that!!!” announcement, then leave, so the show starts up again in five minutes.

You can still buy strips of magnesium from Ebay, and that’s as good as a zinc volcano any day, especially if you powder it in a blender.

By: latente

latente — Wed, 22 Nov 2006 13:00:27 +0000

the face of the boy say all about toxic smoke

By: soapy

soapy — Tue, 21 Nov 2006 10:50:41 +0000

This could be called “Fun with poisons” today.

Remember kids, a zinc fume headache *really hurts*, mercury is toxic by fume, lead is toxic by ingestion/inhalation, hydrogen sulphide (rotten egg smelling gas) is highly poisonous (beware how it numbs the nerves in your nose so you miss it’s smell after a few minutes!) and H2SO4 is also nasty.
Oh, and you might get arrested if you try to buy Ammonium Nitrate despite it being the safest thing on this list.

By: MAKE: Blog

MAKE: Blog — Tue, 21 Nov 2006 07:38:12 +0000

Experiments with Zinc…

“From brazen helmet and warrior’s shield of the ancient world to the modern flashlight cell and galvan-ized steel plate, zinc has worked in the service of man.” Experiments with Zinc, Popular Science 1947 - Link…….