Round 5 Hour 20

[studyofrunning.livejournal.com]

Wow, it's been most of a day already.

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[primsong.livejournal.com]

I'm back, now I have to research some chemical reactions and hope they will somehow make sense in this story and invent something else if they don't. I skipped out on chemistry in favor of biology in school, but the Doctor doesn't need to dissect frogs here, he needs Aktual Skience that does something.

[lolmac]

Icon LOVE. Also, Research Rules. I've spent most of the last hour reading rather squicky details of certain medical conditions, just so I can whump with authority.

[curuchamion.livejournal.com]

What do you need it to do? Because I skipped biology lab in favor of chemistry. (I have no desire whatever to dissect frogs at any time. Whereas making things bubble up in test tubes and go "splurt"... yeah. *g*)

[primsong.livejournal.com]

At this point I have it pretty well figured but I do wonder if it is possible to ignite magnesium in any sort of larger chunk or does it have to be in shavings/powdered first? Also, would some hydrochloric acid in the ocean be a major bad thing for local sea life or would it just sort of make the seaweed wilt for a while?
*scratches head*

[curuchamion.livejournal.com]

I'm pretty sure magnesium has to be in shavings in order to ignite. It might be possible to ignite it in solid form, but it'd be pretty hard work.

As for hydrochloric acid in the ocean, I've no idea, except that it would obviously depend pretty heavily on the amounts and on how stagnant or not the water was.

If you've got the time to wait for your post to be reviewed and unscreened - which can be a few days - you might ask in little_details about the hydrochloric acid thing. Or you could poke round in their tags, which are incomplete but still pretty impressive. It's a really amazing resource. (I found it through lolmac's profile, actually...)

[primsong.livejournal.com]

Will check it out, thanks!