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Article #320Re: Common Household Liquid Without Hydrogen (What Was Answer?)
From: Gadfly
Date: Wed, 07 Jan 1987 17:08
Date: Wed, 07 Jan 1987 17:08
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> I believe that CCl4 isn't very common, and is harder to get hold of all
> the time.
>
> Tried to buy any lately?
In order to spare the net a second go-round of this (it was tiresome
even the first time), I will summarize briefly:
Q: Name a colorless liquid with no hydrogen in its chemical composition
commonly found around the house.
A: Glass (silicon dioxide).
See, it's a trick. Glass is the clearly (heh heh, get it?) desired
mass-consumption pop-quiz answer. A long discussion followed about
whether glass is really a liquid. I do not have an informed opinion.
The majority of technical postings claimed that glass is not truly a
liquid.
Other answers given were carbon tetrachloride, though (as the above
posting indicates) it's not all that common, and mercury, though it
begs the definition of "colorless".
ENOUGH!
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