in which I am personally called out
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kaberettLooking for a reference/primer/explanation on discriminant diagrams, as one does, I stumbled upon this excellent resource, which opens:
You, too, can be a geochemist! You will never have to look at another rock or mineral again! Your only tenuous links to reality will be tables of numbers and vials of powder by post!
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Date: 2020-12-10 01:11 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2020-12-10 03:26 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2020-12-10 02:01 pm (UTC)Today I learned
a) that there exists a unit of measurement called a barn, and
b) right before I was going to crack a joke about the name, why it was named that (rendering any joke I could make redundant)
(The Wikipedia spiral that led to my acquiring this information went something like MRI > MRA > MRI contrast agent > Gadolinium > Barn. Gadolinium comes from the Hebrew 'gadol', great, and has nothing to do with gladioli.)
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Date: 2020-12-10 03:32 pm (UTC)