User talk:LeadSongDog/Archives/2010/September

Milhist A-class and Peer Reviews Jul-Dec 2009

 * Thank you, Tom. Now I'm going to have to look back and figure out what I was doing then. ;-)

LeadSongDog come howl!  16:12, 1 September 2010 (UTC)

Ski sports
WikiProject_Resource_Exchange/Resource_Request

Dear LeadSongDog! I cannot describe it better. I am looking for some events in the skiing sports world in the first quarter 1969. So I need the contents of this magazines. I could find magazines named "Ski sports" and "Skiing sports" for this time period but there are some more, too ... I will be very grateful, if you can copy the content lists of any magazines about skiing sports, mainly of the US, of this time period. I thank you for your help and a reply on this page here. Kind regards, Doc Taxon (talk) 07:05, 5 September 2010 (UTC)

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The Milhist election has started!
The Military history WikiProject coordinator election has started. You are cordially invited to help pick fourteen new coordinators from a pool of twenty candidates. This time round, the term has increased from six to twelve months so it is doubly important that you have your say! Please cast your vote here no later than 23:59 (UTC) on Tuesday, 28 September 2010.

With many thanks in advance for your participation from the coordinator team,  Roger Davies  talk 19:18, 17 September 2010 (UTC)

Melting palladium.
I answered your question at Talk:Cold fusion but put most of it in collapse, for discussions on that page keep spinning far from the purpose and become general discussions of the field. I linked to and quoted an eyewitness account of the damage caused in the famous meltdown, it was a 1 cm. cube of palladium that burned a large hole in a lab table and down into the concrete floor, estimated "as much as four inches."

But the immediate topic could use a decent calculation: if a 10 micro diameter microbubble, an explosive mixture of D2 and O2 at room temperature and pressure, explodes and all the heat is transferred somehow to the same volume of palladium, how hot would the palladium get, neglecting the rapid loss of heat through conduction and vaporization of D2O? If you have time! Thanks. --Abd (talk) 02:57, 22 September 2010 (UTC)

Origin of word "petroleum"
My Shorter Oxford English Dictionary, 6th ed. (2007), has the following in the entry for "petroleum": [ORIGIN medieval Latin, from Latin petra rock + oleum oil.] Though I am not a linguist, I expect that petra may have been a Greek word before it was assimilated into Latin as a loan word. So attributing it to either language may be equally correct. However, the ref for the attribution should correspond with the information in the article. At present the ref is to the Shorter Oxford, not the Concise OED. My assumption that "petra" and not "petro" is correct is based both on the Shorter Oxford and on The New College Latin & English Dictionary. Piperh (talk) 09:23, 25 September 2010 (UTC)