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Andyk

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This was a question on the chase last week C and the chap got it wrong so the chaser told chapter and verse. It's still in production but most people believe it isn't. Apparently they even ask the treasure is it out of production and they saw no it isn't.

So if the chaser chap is wrong buddy what is the answer.
 
zagatoes30

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Andyk said:
This was a question on the chase last week C and the chap got it wrong so the chaser told chapter and verse. It's still in production but most people believe it isn't. Apparently they even ask the treasure is it out of production and they saw no it isn't.

So if the chaser chap is wrong buddy what is the answer.
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You watch The Chase? You must have too much free time ;)
 
CatmanV2

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Andyk said:
This was a question on the chase last week C and the chap got it wrong so the chaser told chapter and verse. It's still in production but most people believe it isn't. Apparently they even ask the treasure is it out of production and they saw no it isn't.

So if the chaser chap is wrong buddy what is the answer.
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I think you've got it. Or close enough. Last printing I believe was 2013, but they certainly are still in production, and circulation. I've actually had (and spent one). I didn't quite get it from your original comment :)

Well done, over to you!

C
 
MrPea

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Navcorr said:
If I may step in as it"s unlikely to be "guessed". MrPea is referring to supercritical fluids (SCF) and their use.

An SCF is a chemical compound held above it's critical point by temperature and pressure. When a compound is SC it is neither a gas nor a liquid. It behaves as both. Can you argue that the change from liquid or gas to SCF is a change of state? Perhaps but strictly it isn't. Think of it as an alternate state rather than a change of state.

Typically, CO2 is used as it is cheap, inert and relatively safe. Water too. In recent years many "green" applications have been developed which will obviously be of interest to V6 & V8 petrol heads. ;) Joking aside, for example, where volatile organic solvents can be replaced with an appropriate SCF. Dry cleaning being an everyday use.

As MrPea said previously there's been some good thinking. This isn't typical everyday chemistry though. However, SCF's are widely used in polymer chemistry which I just happened to study at Uni.

As such, given the unfair advantage, maybe someone else should nominate themselves the next QM. Perhaps CatmanV2 as SCF's are being used for refrigeration - just not in the manner stated.
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Thanks for the answer chap :).

The most common use, of which many of you benefit at night, is for the extraction of caffeine from coffee/tea. It permeates the beans like a gas, but dissolves the caffeine out. Another interesting use I've played with is in stripping all cellular matter from collogen, to provide a totally clean organ structure on which you could seed a person's stem cells and create a transplant with their own DNA. Amazing stuff!
 
Andyk

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zagatoes30 said:
You watch The Chase? You must have too much free time ;)
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No I don't...was on here while my boys were watching and was just multi tasking which I don't do often....

So next question...

What day of the week in not named after an Anglo Saxon God and what is it named
after ?
 
zagatoes30

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Head scratching, I thought they were all named after Anglo Saxon Gods. I thought you were being sexiest but I think two of them are female Goddesses.
 
CatmanV2

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Well I dind't know that.

I thought they were all Roman gods / names. But to help the chap out: Saturn

C
 
spkennyuk

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allandwf said:
Why would you extract the caffeine? A bit like alcohol free beer! ;)
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Caffeine free coffee is just brown water. Utterly pointless stuff. Its like baldrick telling blackadder we ran out of coffee months ago. You have been drinking soil and water or words to that effect.
 
Andyk

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Yep, so answer was Saturday named after a Roman God as all the others are after Anglo Saxon Gods. Saturday was the only day they didn't change.
 
CatmanV2

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Navcorr said:
Very kind CatmanV2 - but please over to you. Going to be off radar for a while.
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Bugger

OK
Possibly the world's oddest animal is the Duck Billed Platypus. Not only is it one of a very small number of venomous mammals, it's unique (as far as I can tell) in how its venom is delivered. It's not gift wrapped from Amazon, so how does the oddest of creatures do it?

C
 
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