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gigabecquerel

I found a small cyanotype set at a local store and was afraid today wouldn't be sunny enough, but it worked so well 😍

Kris\Slyka

@gigabecquerel out of curiosity and because I'm a huge cyanotype nerd: what's the color of the unexposed paper? I'm really curious which kind of chemistry they use.

Laberpferd

@gigabecquerel ich bin mir sicher, für das zweite Bild braucht du keinen Sonnenschein um es abzubilden :)

Dr David Mills

@gigabecquerel it came with its own bucket of instant sunshine?

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quux

@gigabecquerel How many watts? I’m thinking about under the 110 voltage in America, the bulb will only have 1/4 of its nominal power, will it still glow?

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Renaud 🐾 ⏚

@gigabecquerel
Ah ! De mon temps dans une molécule d'eau il y avait juste 2 atomes d'hydrogène. 🙄

Peter Lee

@gigabecquerel there are more fingers on this hand than there are stars in the solar system…

~n

@gigabecquerel Also… if one examines the relationship between those two numbers more closely, it turns out that there is an exact 1:2 ratio, even though one of them is astronomical and the other more than microscopic. Nature is mysterious and beautiful!1

gigabecquerel

Small sized coax!
This is for underground power delivery, most likely 10/20 kV "Mittelspannung", and it even is the flexible variant, with multiple strands in the central conductor, as opposed to one rod 😉
Surrounded by cross linked HDPE, covered in a layer of conductive plastic to smoothe the field as well as some copper for ground.
Typically found in pairs of three!

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Hendi

@gigabecquerel actually seen a lot of much thicker RF coax when visiting several broadcast stations. Unfortunately, they are a species going extinct.

Patrick Herd

@gigabecquerel The shipping container cranes at the local wharf have 11kV supplies to them. Via flexible cables with plugs and sockets...

gigabecquerel

What a lovely shade of orange

wouldn't it be funny if-.. no, it couldn't be

but maybe, let's have a peek...

gigabecquerel

The
whole
fucking
station

is uranium glazed???
That must be tens of kg of uranium!

Hot damn I almost didn't want to leave

Edit:
Fuck sake there are so many armchair experts here.
NO, this is NOT dangerous!
Radiation is all around you and so far you have done just fine surviving that.
It's a nice color and an interesting historical fact, and that's all there's to it.

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