Finally, a fun gas |
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Sulphur
Hexafluoride is six time heavier than air, which makes it a fun thing
to play with. Watch the video, and come up with your own uses for it.
One good thing is the Kyoto Treaty
people say it's 23,900 times as potent a greenhouse gas as carbon
dioxide. Buy some and send it to all your Green friends. Throw out your
hairspray, and pump this out the window instead. Hoo-ahhhhh Here
are some other uses.
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It's a gas!...
www.nofear.org/Archives/Media/2003/07/Alfred_E._Neuman_-_Its_a_Gas.mp3
SF6 (sphsix to the cognoscenti) could be inserted into the syringe that delivers the botox to Hanky: voila, the lids would get heavy and that reptile would blink blink blink.
Or has this already been done, and noone told me?
If you throw a witch on it, will she float?
That was a Monty Python reference, not a political one.
Though I'm curious about that too.
Use it to fill water beds so if you spring a leak you wont flood your 'crash pad'.
Used to have 2 pairs of Dayton Wright XG-10 speakers that used this gas. They were about 10k a pair. Called a gas company and they said they could sell it to me, but I'd have to come get it....they couldn't deliver it to a residential area.....Hazardous Material
If the gas is heavier than air, then it cannot rise into the stratosphere to mess up the ozone layer. It must sink to the surface of the earth, and stay there, forever diluted into single molecules where it cannot harm anything.
I love it when science debunks itself.
"If all else fails, manipulate the data" --
Excellent blog you have here. I'm highly entertained and enlightened. Linkeage has been added.
Al Czervic
The Oneonta Teletype
"The Fifth Column of the Fourth Estate"
"If the gas is heavier than air, then it cannot rise into the stratosphere to mess up the ozone layer. It must sink to the surface of the earth, and stay there, forever diluted into single molecules where it cannot harm anything."
Only if you let the system attain a thermodynamic steady state i.e. after an almost infinite time.
You seem to have forgotten about convection currents.
Otherwise, how do you explain the ozone layer itself and the sulphuric acid aerosols , dust particles, ice crystals or water vapour in the the upper atmosphere ?
Density of ozone - 2.14 kg/m3
Density of air - 1.29 kg/m3
Density of oxygen - 1.43 kg/m3
Density of water - 1000 kg/m3