To answer your question in the description, the waste water contains phosphogypsum which is a radioactive byproduct from the production of phosphate (sulphuric acid is reacted with phosphate rock to produce phosphoric acid used for fertilizer production).

The radioactivity comes from naturally occurring uranium and radium in the phosphate ore. Central Florida phosphogypsum averages 26 pCi/g radium, and the EPA prohibites its use, but further north in Florida the phosphogypsum has an average concentration of less than 10 pCi/g radium which can be used as an agricultural amendment, but for no other use.

Also, the European news that I saw reported 980 million litres of contaminated water which is only slightly higher than the 225 million u.s. gallons reported elsewhere.

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If the movies have taught me anything it's that sulphuric acid is stuff you don't want to mess with.

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>> ^messenger:

The best part of this experiment is how often the carbon looks like a giant phallus rising out of the beaker.
each sees their own problem in it

>> ^WaterDweller:

Our science teacher in junior high showed this to our class. Even picked up the charcoal with his hands (no gloves) afterwards. So I suppose it isn't THAT dangerous. (Either that, or he was weird in the head).


I speak from personal experience when I say say that the best chemistry teachers are at least a little weird in the head

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Yea and do it outside the hood.

>> ^GuyFawkes:

yeah poor that shit down the sink... nice one

Ah....."modern, westernised, african culture". That burst of fresh air that produced black people disappearing during apartheid, people tortured in tanks of sulphuric acid. School children being massacred, Steve Biko, Sharperville--really wanton killing. I am also reading a book about the great job the british colonial judicial system did in Kenya called, "History of the Hanged". Among the British civilizing accomplishments there was forcing thousands of Kikuyus into concentration camps. Thousand were massacred in Nyadzonia in Mozambique, Chimoio, Zambia, innocent refugees including women and children.

Yeah, western values practiced in Africa can be called anything but brutal and inhumane. Not to mention rape. The right of a white man to rape a non-white was as sacrosanct as you say it is in "traditionalist" cultures. A good portion of the mixed population is testament to this indulgence.

It seems to me that if we want to reduce crime as well as the violent and inhumane attitudes in South Africa, western culture is the last place Africans should look.

The west institutionalized brutality against black people and de facto made rape against black women a right. Shaka didn't have anything on the British and the Dutch.

Carbon tax on shotgun discharges into Al Gore's hybrid won't stop the growing threat that humans pose to themselves and others(kitties and frogs, etc.)We must stop the Earth's vindictive output of toxic sulphuric acid and carbon dioxide!! We must crush the sun's death-grip on the most programmable of bipedal hominids, and cease forever the cyclical dervish whose sole purpose is to make it hard for us humans to eat, shit, sleep, fuck, and die where we want to, for however long we please!! Who's with me!!??? Who's with the monkey-lovers??!!

How about the pollution-free, coal burning power plants they want to build, where part of the procedure is to bury the CO2??? Why bury CO2 when thousands of metric tonnes of sulphurous-acid come pouring out of the goddamn planet herself, from many many many volcanic ocean fissures? Why don't the GW pundits EVER mention the earth's own contribution to the phenom?? Because they want you to believe in a new money hole.......So the globe is warming/cooling, and the keepers want to keep the dollar bill addiction alive till the Pacific Rim pops....better chance for them to survive in control perhaps?

If $$$$ was not a factor on this planet, truth would be that much more tangible.......