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WCDT: 2618-2622 (Jan 13 - 17 2014) Weekly Comics Discussion Thread
LookingIn:
--- Quote from: ankhtahr on 13 Jan 2014, 10:02 ---I wonder if it's such a good idea to do this infront o the house. I mean, I would probably get suspicious if I saw somebody inhaling from a bag or balloon. Either vaporized stuff or N₂O but probably nothing legal. (Though I don't know the situation on N₂O in the US. Here you're allowed to buy it and use it for it's designated purpose, that is making whipped cream, but inhaling it is illegal. Theoretically it's illegal to buy it with the intent to inhale it.
But anyway, I would get very suspicious if I saw something like this.
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It's the same here as your country, you can buy it legally and it gets used for multiple legal purposes but it's illegal when it is used for the intent of getting high.
Actually, there was a bust at a concert in the real Northampton in 2009 regarding the usage of Nitrous Oxide.
Kugai:
*Sings* My, my MYYYYY Delilah ;D
This should prove to be an ...... interesting phartay.
Sourced from Wikipedia artical on Helium-3.
Current US industrial consumption of helium-3 is approximately 60,000 liters (approximately 8 kg) per year;[27] cost at auction has typically been approximately $100/liter although increasing demand has raised prices to as much as $2,000/liter in recent years.[28] Helium-3 is naturally present in small quantities due to radioactive decay, but virtually all helium-3 used in industry is manufactured. Helium-3 is a product of tritium decay, and tritium can be produced through neutron bombardment of deuterium, lithium, boron, or nitrogen targets. Production of tritium in significant quantities requires the high neutron flux of a nuclear reactor; breeding tritium with lithium-6 consumes the neutron, while breeding with lithium-7 produces a low energy neutron as a replacement for the consumed fast neutron.
Current supplies of helium-3 come, in part, from the dismantling of nuclear weapons where it accumulates,[29][30] however the need for warhead disassembly is diminishing. Consequently tritium itself is in short supply, and the US Department of Energy recently began producing it by the lithium irradiation method at the Tennessee Valley Authority's Watts Bar reactor.[27] Substantial quantities of tritium could also be extracted from the heavy water moderator in CANDU nuclear reactors.
Production of helium-3 from tritium at a rate sufficient to meet world demand will require significant investment, as tritium must be produced at the same rate as helium-3, and approximately eighteen times as much tritium must be maintained in storage as the amount of helium-3 produced annually by decay (production rate dN/dt from number of moles or other unit mass of tritium N, is N γ = N (ln 2)/t½ where the value of t½/(ln 2) is about 18 years; see radioactive decay). If commercial fusion reactors were to use helium-3 as a fuel, they would require tens of tonnes of helium-3 each year to produce a fraction of the world's power, requiring substantial expansion of facilities for tritium production and storage.[31]
NilsO:
Ordinary helium is Helium-4 (2 protons, 2 neutrons). Helium-3 (2 protons, 1 neutron) is much more rare, expensive, and valuable. You certainly could not afford that in balloons. The tritium method is the only practical method to produce Helium-3, as it is almost impossible to extract Helium-3 from the (very small) fraction present in naturally occurring helium.
Barmymoo:
I dunno, I'd say "I'm good" if offered alcohol or drugs and I don't do drugs and very rarely drink. What I mean is "I'm good without", not "I'm good because I've had some already". Of course Tai might well mean the latter but she doesn't necessarily.
pwhodges:
--- Quote from: NilsO on 13 Jan 2014, 13:29 ---Ordinary helium is Helium-4. Helium-3 is much more rare, expensive, and valuable.
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Specifically, 3He is 0.000137% of naturally occurring Helium on Earth.
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