Ouch! Mind you, I remember having to stifle all manner of comments, and an attack of the giggles, while listening to some skincare shop assistant explain how a particular moisturiser contained molten gold, and claimed that the molten gold brightened the skin and improved its texture and so on...
I suspect it might even sublime it, actually! lthough it might be hard to apply it; it'd be no use them including a little plastic spatula like they do with some posh skin creams!
Probably not, since carbon has the highest sublimation point of any chemical element and once all that silly water was gone it's mostly carbon you'd be left with.
it'd be no use them including a little plastic spatula
Yeah, if you're going to barbecue something you need proper metal tongs!
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Date: 2010-01-26 03:59 pm (UTC)Mind you, I remember having to stifle all manner of comments, and an attack of the giggles, while listening to some skincare shop assistant explain how a particular moisturiser contained molten gold, and claimed that the molten gold brightened the skin and improved its texture and so on...
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Date: 2010-01-26 04:15 pm (UTC)In fairness, it probably would. Briefly. Not sure about the texture part, though...
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Date: 2010-01-26 04:26 pm (UTC)no subject
Probably not, since carbon has the highest sublimation point of any chemical element and once all that silly water was gone it's mostly carbon you'd be left with.
it'd be no use them including a little plastic spatula
Yeah, if you're going to barbecue something you need proper metal tongs!