Small cannonball?

Started by Leon, 05 October 2021, 11:17:24 AM

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Big Insect

06 October 2021, 09:40:06 AM #15
Quote from: steve_holmes_11 on 05 October 2021, 09:02:52 PM
Carbon dating works on organic matter.
The dating works on atmospheric carbon locked into the material while alive.

Carbon in an iron or steel casting will have come from the charcoal or coke used in manufacture.
You may be dating a fossil.

Yes - I think I might have been thinking of some other way of dating cast iron - by detecting the radioactive isotopes caught in the metal by the process - but that could all just be a figment of my imagination  :D
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06 October 2021, 05:16:13 PM #16
Quote from: Lord Kermit of Birkenhead on 06 October 2021, 05:32:41 AM
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Unless it is horse furniture!
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chrishanley

13 October 2021, 06:03:31 PM #17
Interesting, but completely useless fact. A small kitchen is a kitchenette, a small house (or maison in French) is a maisonette and finally a small maul is a mallet.
That is why a small cannon ball, is a bullet...

FierceKitty

14 October 2021, 01:05:48 AM #18
Cigarette, piglet, barette, Hamlet, booklet....
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steve_holmes_11

14 October 2021, 07:44:09 AM #19
Flageolet and parrakeet.

But not electromagnet or supermagnet.
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