http://www.metafilter.com/tags/electronbeamfurnace Posts tagged with 'electronbeamfurnace' at MetaFilter. Tue, 31 Aug 2004 05:27:32 -0800 Tue, 31 Aug 2004 05:27:32 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/35292/Iridium%2Dis%2Dnot%2Da%2Dphone%2Dcompany A <a href="http://www.livejournal.com/~georgelazenby/195942.html">Blog entry</a> about a guy who melted a kilo of Iridium in New Jersey with <a href="http://books.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/02/1848222&tid=134&tid=6">Oliver Sacks</a>. There are also pictures and movies of the 200,000 eV electron beam furnace in action.&#0160; <a href="http://www.theodoregray.com/PeriodicTable/">Theo Gray</a>, co-founder of <a href="http://www.wolfram.com/">Wolfram Research</a> was there too (the pictures are all his). For any laymen who may have wondered in, <a href="http://www.webelements.com/webelements/elements/text/Ir/key.html">Iridium</a> is not a phone company, it is a precious metal that shares an element group with the likes of Platinum and Rhodium. tag:metafilter.com,2004:site.35292 Tue, 31 Aug 2004 05:27:32 -0800 electronbeamfurnace iridium oliversacks theogray wolframresearch pxe2000