wow - palladiated! (Re: Palladium: technical limits and implications)

Adam Back adam at cypherspace.org
Wed Aug 7 14:40:56 PDT 2002


On Wed, Aug 07, 2002 at 03:08:08PM -0400, R. A. Hettinga wrote:
> At 6:54 PM +0100 on 8/7/02, Adam Back wrote:
> > Palladiumized
>
> Palladiated?
>
> ;-).

that's pretty funny, rhymes with irradiated -- nice connotations of
radioactive material with radioactive half-lives spewing
life-hazardous neutron radiation ;-)

Helps that palladium is in fact a heavy metal.  Man, perhaps Pd even
_has_ a half-life on the decay path from plutonium down to lead or
something.  That would be very funny.

Adam

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