<!-- MHonArc v2.4.4 --> <!--X-Subject: [MUD-Dev] Re: Spell components, chemistry, and the like... --> <!--X-From-R13: Zvat <Y.Z.Zb-94Nfghqrag.yobeb.np.hx> --> <!--X-Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1998 05:27:33 -0800 --> <!--X-Message-Id: Pine.SOL.3.96.981111125438.22333A-100000@sun-cc203 --> <!--X-Content-Type: text/plain --> <!--X-Reference: 19981110192717.46705#moos,ml.org --> <!--X-Head-End--> <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2//EN"> <html> <head> <title>MUD-Dev message, [MUD-Dev] Re: Spell components, chemistry, and the like...</title> <!-- meta name="robots" content="noindex,nofollow" --> <link rev="made" href="mailto:K.L.Lo-94#student,lboro.ac.uk"> </head> <body background="/backgrounds/paperback.gif" bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000" link="#0000FF" alink="#FF0000" vlink="#006000"> <font size="+4" color="#804040"> <strong><em>MUD-Dev<br>mailing list archive</em></strong> </font> <br> [ <a href="../">Other Periods</a> | <a href="../../">Other mailing lists</a> | <a href="/search.php3">Search</a> ] <br clear=all><hr> <!--X-Body-Begin--> <!--X-User-Header--> <!--X-User-Header-End--> <!--X-TopPNI--> Date: [ <a href="msg00816.html">Previous</a> | <a href="msg00818.html">Next</a> ] Thread: [ <a href="msg00812.html">Previous</a> | <a href="msg00821.html">Next</a> ] Index: [ <A HREF="author.html#00817">Author</A> | <A HREF="#00817">Date</A> | <A HREF="thread.html#00817">Thread</A> ] <!--X-TopPNI-End--> <!--X-MsgBody--> <!--X-Subject-Header-Begin--> <H1>[MUD-Dev] Re: Spell components, chemistry, and the like...</H1> <HR> <!--X-Subject-Header-End--> <!--X-Head-of-Message--> <UL> <LI><em>To</em>: <A HREF="mailto:mud-dev#kanga,nu">mud-dev#kanga,nu</A></LI> <LI><em>Subject</em>: [MUD-Dev] Re: Spell components, chemistry, and the like...</LI> <LI><em>From</em>: Ling <<A HREF="mailto:K.L.Lo-94#student,lboro.ac.uk">K.L.Lo-94#student,lboro.ac.uk</A>></LI> <LI><em>Date</em>: Wed, 11 Nov 1998 13:11:18 +0000 (BST)</LI> <LI><em>Reply-To</em>: <A HREF="mailto:mud-dev#kanga,nu">mud-dev#kanga,nu</A></LI> </UL> <!--X-Head-of-Message-End--> <!--X-Head-Body-Sep-Begin--> <HR> <!--X-Head-Body-Sep-End--> <!--X-Body-of-Message--> <PRE> On Tue, 10 Nov 1998, Hal Black wrote: > On Tue, Nov 10, 1998 at 02:27:20PM -0800, quzah [sotfhome] wrote: > > > Some more examples: [snip] > cornstarch(s) + water(l) -----------------> "goop" (sometimes solid, > sometimes liquid) > Try making some "goop" at home. Get some cornstarch and mix in some water, > when you squeeze it it feels solid. If you leave it alone, it turns to a > runny liquid. Neat stuff. 8') Sounds like silicon putty. Details are something like: Leave it alone and it'll form into a ball, place it on a slope and it'll run like a liquid, hit it with a hammer and it'll shatter. Look into the impulse of force applied to an object for this behaviour. [large snip] > material is what it's made of. Could be a mixture, complex structure, > or pure molecular/elemental type. Lots of room for development here, > depending on how involved you want to get. (are animals and plants the > same or different subtypes of "organic", etc...) There are mixtures, > alloys, all kinds of neat stuff. Go to your college book store and sit > down with a Chemistry 101 book and thumb through it for a while for > ideas. There is some neat stuff in there. Like Adam Wiggin said, high explorer value. :) Stuff like alloys is where it starts getting interesting. Take a look at the production techniques involved in making steel. Ideally, around 3% of steel should be carbon. Methods of manufacture from pure iron include throwing random bits of leather junk into a molten mix and for impure iron, sticking pure iron nuggets on it to absorb the carbon. Then there's the rather funky technique that produces blades that have wavy dark-light bands because the blacksmiths varied the carbon content, Damocles blades, I think. This is what I like about rpgs, learning random stuff like this! | Ling Lo (cod) _O_O_ kllo#iee,org </PRE> <!--X-Body-of-Message-End--> <!--X-MsgBody-End--> <!--X-Follow-Ups--> <HR> <ul compact><li><strong>Follow-Ups</strong>: <ul> <li><strong><A NAME="00821" HREF="msg00821.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: Spell components, chemistry, and the like...</A></strong> <ul compact><li><em>From:</em> Ben Greear <greear#cyberhighway,net></li></ul> </UL></LI></UL> <!--X-Follow-Ups-End--> <!--X-References--> <UL><LI><STRONG>References</STRONG>: <UL> <LI><STRONG><A NAME="00812" HREF="msg00812.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: Spell components, chemistry, and the like...</A></STRONG> <UL><LI><EM>From:</EM> Hal Black <hal#moos,ml.org></LI></UL></LI> </UL></LI></UL> <!--X-References-End--> <!--X-BotPNI--> <UL> <LI>Prev by Date: <STRONG><A HREF="msg00816.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: Spell components, chemistry, and the like...</A></STRONG> </LI> <LI>Next by Date: <STRONG><A HREF="msg00818.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: Spell components, chemistry, and the like...</A></STRONG> </LI> <LI>Prev by thread: <STRONG><A HREF="msg00812.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: Spell components, chemistry, and the like...</A></STRONG> </LI> <LI>Next by thread: <STRONG><A HREF="msg00821.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: Spell components, chemistry, and the like...</A></STRONG> </LI> <LI>Index(es): <UL> <LI><A HREF="index.html#00817"><STRONG>Date</STRONG></A></LI> <LI><A HREF="thread.html#00817"><STRONG>Thread</STRONG></A></LI> </UL> </LI> </UL> <!--X-BotPNI-End--> <!--X-User-Footer--> <!--X-User-Footer-End--> <ul><li>Thread context: <BLOCKQUOTE><UL> <LI><STRONG>[MUD-Dev] Re: Spell components, chemistry, and the like...</STRONG>, <EM>(continued)</EM> <ul compact> <LI><strong><A NAME="00807" HREF="msg00807.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: Spell components, chemistry, and the like...</A></strong>, quzah [sotfhome] <a href="mailto:quzah#softhome,net">quzah#softhome,net</a>, Tue 10 Nov 1998, 13:02 GMT <UL> <LI><strong><A NAME="00816" HREF="msg00816.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: Spell components, chemistry, and the like...</A></strong>, Ben Greear <a href="mailto:greear#cyberhighway,net">greear#cyberhighway,net</a>, Wed 11 Nov 1998, 02:14 GMT </LI> </UL> </LI> <LI><strong><A NAME="00809" HREF="msg00809.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: Spell components, chemistry, and the like...</A></strong>, quzah [sotfhome] <a href="mailto:quzah#softhome,net">quzah#softhome,net</a>, Tue 10 Nov 1998, 22:34 GMT <UL> <LI><strong><A NAME="00812" HREF="msg00812.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: Spell components, chemistry, and the like...</A></strong>, Hal Black <a href="mailto:hal#moos,ml.org">hal#moos,ml.org</a>, Wed 11 Nov 1998, 00:00 GMT <UL> <LI><strong><A NAME="00817" HREF="msg00817.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: Spell components, chemistry, and the like...</A></strong>, Ling <a href="mailto:K.L.Lo-94#student,lboro.ac.uk">K.L.Lo-94#student,lboro.ac.uk</a>, Wed 11 Nov 1998, 13:27 GMT <UL> <LI><strong><A NAME="00821" HREF="msg00821.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: Spell components, chemistry, and the like...</A></strong>, Ben Greear <a href="mailto:greear#cyberhighway,net">greear#cyberhighway,net</a>, Thu 12 Nov 1998, 02:32 GMT <UL> <LI><strong><A NAME="00822" HREF="msg00822.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: Spell components, chemistry, and the like...</A></strong>, Caliban Tiresias Darklock <a href="mailto:caliban#darklock,com">caliban#darklock,com</a>, Thu 12 Nov 1998, 04:52 GMT <UL> <LI><strong><A NAME="00823" HREF="msg00823.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: Spell components, chemistry, and the like...</A></strong>, Adam J. Thornton <a href="mailto:adam#phoenix,Princeton.EDU">adam#phoenix,Princeton.EDU</a>, Thu 12 Nov 1998, 05:29 GMT </LI> </UL> </LI> </UL> </LI> </UL> </LI> </UL> </LI> </UL> </LI> <LI><strong><A NAME="00810" HREF="msg00810.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: Spell components, chemistry, and the like...</A></strong>, quzah [sotfhome] <a href="mailto:quzah#softhome,net">quzah#softhome,net</a>, Tue 10 Nov 1998, 22:50 GMT </LI> </ul> </LI> </UL></BLOCKQUOTE> </ul> <hr> <center> [ <a href="../">Other Periods</a> | <a href="../../">Other mailing lists</a> | <a href="/search.php3">Search</a> ] </center> <hr> </body> </html>