HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: gary@resumix.portal.com (Gary Lin)
Subject: Quick cesium fix...
Summary: Color makes me queasy
Keywords: cesium CRT's yum yum!
Organization: Resumix Inc.
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 92 20:59:11 GMT


I'm having difficulty getting my monthly cesium fix.  Sadly, I don't have
an atomic clock, or keys to the isotope locker.

But I've heard you can suck out trace isotopes in color CRT's.  They're
supposed to be inside to make colors brighter.  Maybe that 19" Triniton
in the corner of engineering will do.  How do I crack one of those open
without too much rarefied gas leaking out?


						Gary M. Lin
						gary@resumix.portal.com
Newsgroups: alt.cesium
From: orf@skool.ssec.wisc.edu (Leigh Orf)
Subject: Re: Welcome!!
Reply-To: orf@scrap.ssec.wisc.edu (Leigh Orf)
Organization: Atmospheric & Oceanic & Space Sciences Dept., UW Maidson, WI
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 15:27:35 GMT

In article <1992Sep13.050956.26668@cco.caltech.edu>, peri@cco.caltech.edu
(Michal Leah Peri) writes:
>>>Why there's ...
>>>	Antimony,
>>>	Arsenic,
>>>	Aluminum,
>>>	Selenium.
>>>	And Nitrogen,
>>>	And Oxygen,
>>>	And Hydrogen,
>>>	And Rehenium.....
>
>And here in California we have Referendum. 

My 1976 Saab 99's parts are composed primarily of the expensive alloy,
Unobtanium.

orf
Newsgroups: alt.cesium
From: hoffberg@phebos.aps.anl.gov (Mike G. Hoffberg)
Subject: Cesium and Beagles
Keywords: dogs
Organization: Argonne National Laboratory, Chicago Illinois
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 13:54:18 GMT

In article <16842@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu> igor@charles.ucdavis.edu (Frog's Experimental Account) writes:
>what a group.  can anyone tell me what happens when you fill
>some beagles with cesium-137 (is that the rite isotope#?) and
>then bury them in an unlined grave next to the ol lab on 
>school grounds.  below which there lie the wells of water supply.

Anyone at Oak Ridge wish to comment on the above experiment?  (I
believe that it has already been done.)

MIKE
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From: gezelter@sam.cchem.berkeley.edu (Dan Gezelter)
Newsgroups: alt.cesium
Subject: Re: More Cesium facts.
Date: 10 Sep 1992 21:22:31 GMT
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
NNTP-Posting-Host: sam.cchem.berkeley.edu

In article <1992Sep10.192511.7334@nntpd.lkg.dec.com> moroney@ramblr.enet.dec.com writes:

>Something with a half-life of 3*10^6 years won't occur naturally unless it is
>the decay product of something else, since it has been about 1333 half-lives
>since the formation of the Earth.  What's 1/(2^1333)?  That's the amount of
>the original Cs-135 left, if the earth is 4 billion years old.
 
True, except that Cs-135 could be the decay product of something with
a much longer half-life, which could be continually restocking the
world's supply of Cs-135.  Also, Cs in the earth's core could be
absorbing neutrons from other nearby sources of radioactivity,
bringing the abundance of Cs-135 well above what we would predict
using the simple calculation using the age of the earth...

  Anyone know if Cs-135 (or any other Cs isotope for that matter) lies
anywhere in another isotope's decay chain?  

   --Dan
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From: lllowen@netcom.com (lllowen)
Newsgroups: alt.cesium
Subject: Re: Welcome!!
Date: 8 Sep 92 21:37:41 GMT
Organization: Netcom Online Communications Services (408-241-9760 login: guest)

In article <h1rn7_c.gooley@netcom.com> gooley@netcom.com (Mark. Gooley) writes:
>Why cesium?
>
>Why not bismuth?

You doubt the power of cesium?  I think I may have some more people to
back me up in this one!   (Bismuth is nice, btw)
-- 

Lon Lowen Jr.                      lllowen@netcom.com
Netcom On-Line Communications
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From: aankrom@nyx.cs.du.edu (Anthony Ankrom)
Subject: Re: Sr-90
X-Disclaimer: Nyx is a public access Unix system run by the University
	of Denver for the Denver community.  The University has neither
	control over nor responsibility for the opinions of users.
Organization: Nyx, Public Access Unix at U. of Denver Math/CS dept.
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 92 05:36:59 GMT

In article <DRW.92Sep9140355@euclid.mit.edu> drw@euclid.mit.edu (Dale R. 
orley) writes:
>In article <1992Sep9.040945.9158@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> aankrom@nyx.cs.du.
du (Anthony Ankrom) writes:
>   Nobody mentioned Strontium 90! And what about Xenon 133? How about
>   Xe(133)O3, my favorite explosive. And the isotope HAS to be 133...
>
>Details?
>
>Dale



 I'm sorry. I guess I go ta bit carried away. I mean a newsgroup dedicated
to ONE element. Imagine groups dedicated to EACH AND EVERY ELEMENT! W
 alt.rhenium  alt.xenon...

and subgroups for isotopes and...

Somehow I feel I'm getting a bit carried away. But the IDEA...

St. Anthony

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From: engberg@raven.SLAC.Stanford.EDU (daVe)
Newsgroups: alt.cesium
Subject: Re: This Newsgroup
Date: 10 Sep 92 17:26:28 GMT

In article <k-snl4g.lllowen@netcom.com>, lllowen@netcom.com (lllowen) writes:
|> Wow.  I screwed up on something...believe it or not, this newgroup was
|> not necessarily created for discussion of the elements or even specifically
|> the discussion of the element cesium.  CESIUM is a group of students around
|> ...

maybe there should be a separate heirarchy for non-goofy newsgroups whose names
happen to include things like this.

something like:

alt.not-created-by-dreaux-or-carasso.*

so we don't flood all of these delightful, yet serious, newsgroups like
alt.timewasters  and alt.cesium  or alt.industrial

:-)
daVe "standard disclaimer"
Newsgroups: alt.cesium
From: fdeck@smiley.helios.nd.edu (francis deck)
Subject: Rubidium, anyone?
Reply-To: fdeck@smiley.helios.nd.edu (francis deck)
Organization: University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 01:29:39 GMT

I'd like to know if there are people out there with real
experience in handling metallic Rubidium (Rb).  Rb is just
as much fun as Cs.  I am working on a thermal beam source
for Rb, but am having trouble finding information on
handling Rb in air (unavoidable) and also how to deal
with large (up to 20 g) quantities of the metal as waste.

f.deck
physics
Notre Dame
Newsgroups: alt.cesium
From: aankrom@nyx.cs.du.edu (Anthony Ankrom)
Subject: Re: This Newsgroup
X-Disclaimer: Nyx is a public access Unix system run by the University
	of Denver for the Denver community.  The University has neither
	control over nor responsibility for the opinions of users.
Organization: Nyx, Public Access Unix at U. of Denver Math/CS dept.
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 92 05:55:49 GMT

In article <1992Sep9.123304.19820@mr.med.ge.com> hinz@picard.med.ge.com (
avid Hinz Mfg 4-6987) writes:
>Oh, sure, string us down and then shoot us down.
>
>Bah.
>
>
>--
>
>Dave Hinz  -  Opinions expressed are mine, not my employer's.  Obviously

>hinzd@picard.med.ge.com



 Yeah. This time I'm REALLY going to jump!

St, Anthony

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From: schroede@bnlux1.bnl.gov (gary l. schroeder)
Subject: Re: Welcome!!
Organization: Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY 11973
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 12:58:26 GMT

In article <16842@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu> igor@charles.ucdavis.edu (Frog's Experimental Account) writes:
>what a group.  can anyone tell me what happens when you fill
>some beagles with cesium-137 (is that the rite isotope#?) and
>then bury them in an unlined grave next to the ol lab on 
>school grounds.  below which there lie the wells of water supply.

Yes, as the dog's flesh decays, the Cs-137 will be released into the
soil, where it will be free to leach through the soil, migrating
downward.  Eventually, it may reach the local water table, get into your
water supply and be ingested by the surrounding inhabitants.  Due to
various factors, including the original source term, soil
characteristics, and hydrogeologic effects, the resulting uptake may or
may not be significant.

I'm surprised that anyone would actually bury a contaminated animal.
They usually incinerate them.  Does this help?

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From: mute@wpi.WPI.EDU (Madman Omar)
Newsgroups: alt.cesium
Subject: Re: Periodic table of the aliments
Date: 13 Sep 92 16:03:16 GMT
Organization: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
NNTP-Posting-Host: wpi.wpi.edu

In article <BuH5vr.426@world.std.com> bmarcum@world.std.com (Bill Marcum) writes:
>
>[I forgot whether cesium was Ce or Cs.  Those two-letter postal abbreviations
>give me trouble too, but I never had to mail a letter to Cesium.]

Aww... No wonder Cesium is getting lonely and forming compounds with
any element that happens to wander by... Now go get pen and paper and
write to the poor dear.



-- 
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From: lllowen@netcom.com (lllowen)
Subject: Re: This Newsgroup
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 92 04:19:12 GMT
Organization: Netcom Online Communications Services (408-241-9760 login: guest)

In article <1992Sep9.225131.2917@news.cs.indiana.edu> 
"Mike Clemens" <mclemens@whale.cs.indiana.edu> writes:
>In article <k-snl4g.lllowen@netcom.com> lllowen@netcom.com (lllowen) writes:
>>Wow... 
>>the good 'ole USA (originally standing for College Eduacated Students...
>                                                    ^^^^^^^^^
>Obviously.
>

Sorry...sorry...sorry.  Typo...typo...typo.
-- 

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Newsgroups: alt.cesium
From: positron@engin.umich.edu (Jonathan Scott Haas)
Subject: Re: Time and our heroic element
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 92 02:06:35 EDT
Organization: University of Michigan Engineering, Ann Arbor

In article <18mi2eINN8e3@agate.berkeley.edu> gezelter@sam.cchem.berkeley.edu (Dan Gezelter) writes:
>According to the National Institute of Standards and Technology
>(formerly NBS): 
>
>  The second is defined as the duration of 9,192,631,770 periods of
>the radiation corresponding to the transition between the two
>hyperfine levels of the ground state of cesium 133.
>

You sure about this? I'm almost certain that a second is defined as the
amount of time it takes light to travel 299,xxx,xxx meters in a vacuum.

-- 
__/\__  Jonathan S. Haas         | Jake liked his women the way he liked
\    /  University of Michigan   | his kiwi fruit: sweet yet tart, firm-
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  \/                             | covered with short brown fuzzy hair.
Newsgroups: alt.cesium
From: mbrockma@bank.ecn.purdue.edu (Matt Brockman)
Subject: Re: Welcome!!
Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 02:52:48 GMT

>I say that we disband this group and get something useful like alt.nitrogen.
>Nitrogen is much more useful than cesium anyway, and is in all ways a
>superior element.

Oh, boy. Another fair-weather fan. Hoppin' on the bandwagon
just cause N take up ~80% of the atmoshpere. You think
just because *your* element is more prevelent that it is
automatically better. Why not back Jupiter just 'cause it's
the biggest planet?
Your kind disgusts me!


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            be prized somewhere in the far reaches of llama hell."
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From: gezelter@sam.cchem.berkeley.edu (Dan Gezelter)
Newsgroups: alt.cesium
Subject: Re: Time and our heroic element
Date: 11 Sep 1992 22:10:22 GMT
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
NNTP-Posting-Host: sam.cchem.berkeley.edu

A higher authority than myself, Jonathan M. Gilligan writes:

>Must be a pretty old ``latest.'' From Metrologia Vol. 19, p. 163 (1984):

O.K. I give up.  The references on this standards card are all from
the 1970's, but I was given the card in 1989, which was the last year
I worked for NIST.  I do, however, bow to the superior authority of
Mr. Gilligan.
 
> [Quote from Metrologia deleted]

>Got it?

Yup.  Off to go eat my hat.
   --Dan
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From: kludge@grissom.larc.nasa.gov (Scott Dorsey)
Subject: Re: Welcome!!
Organization: NASA Langley Research Center and Reptile Farm
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 14:45:04 GMT

>>
>>I prefer praseodymium.  I mean, _how_many_ elements have 6 syllables?
>
>Yes, but can you breathe it?

That's right!  If cesium were all that important, there would be a US RDA
for it, and you'd be able to buy cesium supplements in the health food store.
Our health food store sells selenium, copper, and chromium supplements,
though they don't have the more important minerals like lead, mercury,
and arsenic.

I say that we disband this group and get something useful like alt.nitrogen.
Nitrogen is much more useful than cesium anyway, and is in all ways a
superior element.
--scott
Newsgroups: alt.cesium
From: schroede@bnlux1.bnl.gov (gary l. schroeder)
Subject: Re: Sr-90
Organization: Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY 11973
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 20:47:12 GMT

In article <1992Sep9.040945.9158@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> aankrom@nyx.cs.du.edu (Anthony Ankrom) writes:
>
> Nobody mentioned Strontium 90! And what about Xenon 133? How about
>Xe(133)O3, my favorite explosive. And the isotope HAS to be 133...

Well, it is true that Sr-90 is usually found accompanying Cs-137 in
soils.



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From: kjurena@lonestar.utsa.edu (Keith R. Jurena)
Newsgroups: alt.cesium,rec.humor
Subject: Re: Welcome!!
Date: 10 Sep 92 22:03:19 GMT
Organization: University of Texas at San Antonio

In article <1992Sep09.091940.10367@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu> ejhupper@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu (Eric Huppertz) writes:
>In article <h1rn7_c.gooley@netcom.com> gooley@netcom.com (Mark. Gooley) writes:
>>Why cesium?
Because it is also spelled caesium

>>
>>Why not bismuth?
because pepto-bismol contains bismuth and this is not a "shitty" group.
Sodium is too unstable and potassium is inferior  JAFNG-  figure it out
Newsgroups: alt.cesium
From: mikeehli@cie.uoregon.edu (Mike Ehli)
Subject: Re: Elemental, my dear Watson.
Organization: University of Oregon Campus Information Exchange
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 92 00:10:57 GMT

In article <1992Sep9.152308.14188@javelin.sim.es.com> biesel@javelin.sim.es.com (Heiner Biesel) writes:
>Sure, Cesium is nice, and will suffice, but I want my astatine. Lives
>there an element more enshrouded in mystery than this? What a mellifluous
>name, what bizarre properties! Ah, astatine ...

But what I want to see is some research into the properties of francium
astatide...but I'll settle for hydroastatic acid....
Francium hydroxide with a jigger of promethium?
--Mike
From: gilligan@bldrdoc.gov (Jonathan M. Gilligan)
Newsgroups: alt.cesium
Subject: Re: Time and our heroic element
Date: 11 Sep 92 20:44:29 GMT
Organization: National Institute of Standards and Technology

In article <BuD831.DKB@news.larc.nasa.gov> goodrich@lynx.larc.nasa.gov (Mike Goodrich) writes:
|>In article <1992Sep10.125343.12926@athena.mit.edu>, krpeters@athena.mit.edu (Karl R Peters) writes:
|>|> In article <mDr-L=+@engin.umich.edu> positron@engin.umich.edu (Jonathan Scott Haas) writes:
|>|> >In article <18mi2eINN8e3@agate.berkeley.edu> gezelter@sam.cchem.berkeley.edu (Dan Gezelter) writes:
|>|> >>According to the National Institute of Standards and Technology
|>|> >>(formerly NBS): 
|>|> >>
|>|> >>  The second is defined as the duration of 9,192,631,770 periods of
|>|> >>the radiation corresponding to the transition between the two
|>|> >>hyperfine levels of the ground state of cesium 133.
|>|> >>
|>|> >
|>|> >You sure about this? I'm almost certain that a second is defined as the
|>|> >amount of time it takes light to travel 299,xxx,xxx meters in a vacuum.
|>|> >
|>|> >-- 
|>|> >__/\__  Jonathan S. Haas         | Jake liked his women the way he liked
|>|> >\    /  University of Michigan   | his kiwi fruit: sweet yet tart, firm-
|>|> >/_  _\  positron@engin.umich.edu | fleshed yet yielding to the touch, and
|>|> >  \/                             | covered with short brown fuzzy hair.
|>|> 
|>|> No, actually the meter is defined by the distance travelled by light in
|>|> 1/299,xxx,xxx of a second.
|>|> 
|>
|>
|>NO, actually the meter is *defined* as a certain number of wavelengths of a
|>particular atomic transition of Krypton 86 ...

Not any more. The was redefined in the early 80's by the BIPM
(International Bureau of Weights and Measures) when they decided to
define the speed of light instead of the meter. Of course, William
Lichten has been lobbying for defining the Rydberg constant instead.

---Jon


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From: mbrockma@bank.ecn.purdue.edu (Matt Brockman)
Subject: Re: Welcome!!
Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 02:40:02 GMT

In article <j3rnvjp.lllowen@netcom.com> lllowen@netcom.com (lllowen) writes:
>In article <h1rn7_c.gooley@netcom.com> gooley@netcom.com (Mark. Gooley) writes:
>>Why cesium?
>>
>>Why not bismuth?
>
>You doubt the power of cesium?  I think I may have some more people to
>back me up in this one!   (Bismuth is nice, btw)

Well, yes, Bismuth is nice...but it's no Cesium!

I suppose that you'll be saying next we should
allow discussion of the Noble Gases! 


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From: lllowen@netcom.com (lllowen)
Subject: This Newsgroup
Date: Wed, 09 Sep 92 05:14:37 GMT
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 

Wow.  I screwed up on something...believe it or not, this newgroup was
not necessarily created for discussion of the elements or even specifically
the discussion of the element cesium.  CESIUM is a group of students around
the good 'ole USA (originally standing for College Eduacated Students In
University of Michigan), but that is outdated since 'membership' broadened
beyond UofM.  --Now, ending in Universal Mainland.

Discussion of elements is perfectly okay, and I apologize because as
pointed out the group name should have been 'alt.org.cesium' or
'alt.talk.cesium'.   Anything is game, however. 

CESIUM is supposed to be school related, and discussions about the
tragedies, terrors, troubles and terrific's of college life always welcome!

If something good or bad happened at school, tell us about it and we'll
either congratulate you or wish ya' good luck.

SO...what is the atomic weight of cesium anyway???   :)
-- 

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From: mcgregor@berlioz.nsc.com (Joel McGregor)
Newsgroups: alt.cesium
Subject: Re: Welcome!!
Date: 10 Sep 92 03:53:06 GMT
Organization: National Semiconductor Corporation

In article <h1rn7_c.gooley@netcom.com> gooley@netcom.com (Mark. Gooley) w
ites:
>Why cesium?
>
>Why not bismuth?
>
>Mark., bismuth freak
>gooley@netcom.com

Lithium has always been a personal favorite of mine.

-- 
Joel McGregor (mcgregor@berlioz.nsc.com)   Process Development, Linear Mfg.
                                           National Semiconductor Corporation
Tel: (408) 721-5637                        Santa Clara, CA
From: gryphon@wpi.WPI.EDU (M-5)
Newsgroups: alt.cesium
Subject: Re: Welcome!!
Date: 13 Sep 1992 16:48:21 GMT
Organization: RecursionCo.: We'll do it again and again and again and again a
NNTP-Posting-Host: wpi.wpi.edu

In article <1992Sep13.050956.26668@cco.caltech.edu> peri@cco.caltech.edu (Michal Leah Peri) writes:
>>>Why there's ...
>>>	Antimony,
>>>	Arsenic,
>>>	Aluminum,
>>>	Selenium.
>>>	And Nitrogen,
>>>	And Oxygen,
>>>	And Hydrogen,
>>>	And Rehenium.....
>
>And here in California we have Referendum. 

Hey, we have a lot of that back home in Maine, too.  Neat...

--G.

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From: kludge@grissom.larc.nasa.gov (Scott Dorsey)
Subject: Re: Welcome!!
Organization: NASA Langley Research Center and Reptile Farm
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 13:38:27 GMT

>
>>   Do you think this newsgroup might belong in the alt.music.heavy-metal
>>   heirarchy?
>
>Not until The Osmium Isotopes make an appearance here.

No way.  They really stink.
--scott
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From: positron@engin.umich.edu (Jonathan Scott Haas)
Subject: Re: Welcome!!
Date: Tue, 08 Sep 92 18:33:55 EDT
Organization: University of Michigan Engineering, Ann Arbor

In article <gabble> gooley@netcom.com (Mark. Gooley) writes:
>In article <bleah> lllowen@netcom.com (Lonmower Man) writes:
>>In article <something> gooley@netcom.com (Mark. Gooley) writes:
>>>Why cesium?
>>>
>>>Why not bismuth?
>>
>>You doubt the power of cesium?  I think I may have some more people to
>>back me up in this one!   (Bismuth is nice, btw)
>
>Well, you can run an atomic clock off cesium, but it isn't so great
>for non-lethal relief of indigestion.
>

What's wrong with lethal relief of indigestion? Do you have some
kind of unfair prejudice against death?

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__/\__  Jonathan S. Haas         | Jake liked his women the way he liked
\    /  University of Michigan   | his kiwi fruit: sweet yet tart, firm-
/_  _\  positron@engin.umich.edu | fleshed yet yielding to the touch, and
  \/                             | covered with short brown fuzzy hair.