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I wouldn't do that. Ok, maybe. It DOES seem sort of like fun.

These large coal mines needed their own generating stations to power each facility, so these towers were probably used solely by the power plant, which I imagine was a coal burner.

It's still sitting there, a burned out shell of what it once was... I believe whatever is left inside will be salvaged soon.

This room is located in the large, newer building on the campus; administration was located in the center of the old Kirkbride building.

http://www.medcyclopae...tter_bucky_grid.aspx

I was just wondering the same thing skyguy...things were so secretive back in the days before and after WWII.

Well said Canada! History is important no matter where it comes from. My grandfather was a merchant marine during WWII and he remembered very well what Europe looked like at the time and it wasn't pretty. But being able to go back to all these locations and seeing the beauty in them shows how far the younger generations have come (at least some of them, that is).

The "Bucky" is named after my grandfather, Gustav Bucky..a noted radiologist. Who the hell is Potter?

Yay! Updatedness! :)
I think you should've looked in some of the boxes....

I like it.

I remember many hours spent in that room! I was in the graduating class of 1973. We lived in "Home 69", ...the co-ed dorm! I remember parking in the circle, walking thru the grounds, working on the wards, etc. We were the first class to wear the new uniforms...how we hated them! Got a great education.

It's a distro panel. I've seen things like this before. Notice the red "o" and black "I" buttons in the middle. Basic on/off.

What's interesting is there are no gauges. Must've been removed for precious metal content.

probably a rifle rack for the mauser 98k, standard issue german rifle in WWII.

i wonder if you still can tak a look there..

According to the label, the specific gravity is (or at least once was) 1.18, which (according to standard s.g. tables for this acid) makes it very close to 35% w/w, which is very close to saturated. (You can possible read "HCl = 36.40" on the 4th line of the label, but the digits are hard to make out.) In molarity, it works out to around 11 M (that's eleven, not one point one.) So yes, this is a strong, concentrated acid and would cause serious burns if you got it on you. Having said that, hydrochloric acid of this strength can be bought in any hardware store, without any restrictions. The only difference is that this acid is analytical grade, which means it is much purer than the stuff from the hardware store.


The main reasons for strong mineral acids in a medical lab setting are controlling pH for tests that are sensitive to it, and as a calibration standard. Conc. acid like this isn't used for a calibration standard (because it would need to be diluted before use, which adds a potential source of error), so this acid was probably intended to be a handy supply of acid that could be diluted down to whatever strength was required when needed to adjust pH in tests.

Seeing it here is a side effect of environmental protection regulations. It's obviously a good thing that companies can't dump chemical wastes down the drains. But the rules are so strict that when it comes to disposing of small amounts of moderately harmful chemicals, it's such a pain in the arse to go by the book that it's easier to leave it on the shelf and hope someone else deals with it. The fact is, for a small amount like this (half a one litre bottle), it would have been harmless to dilute it 100:1 in the sink, add a pound of bicarb. of soda to neutralise, then flushing it down the drain. It certainly would be a lot better than leaving it around where some kid might end playing with it and getting burned.