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Just to ease me pain, I'm currently supping an NHS cuppa and dunking ginger nuts, bliss!!

Good morning Wreslers all, look at our SP flying like a lead piggin once again. Admittedly, volume is low so a few decent buys should see things back on the rise again?

Where's me choccies? Hbob, get on the blower or email whiffer thingy to her and get things movin' please.

Or what? When I was young I used to just flop it out and bung it in, didnt have time for parameters :-))

This in turn allows for maximum flexibility with regard to adjusting the operating parameters for the stroke motion (frequency, amplitude and shape).

No chance of that Bob, nurses don't have legs no more, only trousers. I did however remember the facts from an answer given on University Challenge (Merton Clever-Dick) in April 2011. Funny how some things just stick in the memory?

Tungsten is one of the five refractory metals. The other metals are niobium, molybdenum, tantalum, and rhenium. These elements are clustered near each other on the periodic table. Refractory metals are those which exhibit extremely high resistance to heat and wear.

Tungsten is considered to have low toxicity and plays a biological role in organisms. This makes it the heaviest element used in biochemical reactions. Certain bacteria use tungsten in an enzyme that reduces carboxylic acids to aldehydes. In animals, tungsten interferes with copper and molybdenum metabolism, so it is considered slightly toxic.

Natural tungsten consists of five stable isotopes. These isotopes actually do undergo radioactive decay, but the half-lives are so long (four quintillion years) that they are stable for all practical purposes. At least 30 artificial unstable isotopes have also been recognized.

Tungsten has many uses. It is used for filaments in electric lamps, in television and electron tubes, in metal evaporators, for electrical contacts, as an x-ray target, for heating elements, and in numerous high temperature applications. Tungsten is a common element in alloys, including tool steels. Its hardness and high density also make it an excellent metal for constructing penetrating projectiles. Tungsten metal is used for glass-to-metal seals. The element's compounds are used for fluorescent lighting, tanning, lubricants, and paints. Tungsten compounds find use as catalysts.

Sources of tungsten include the minerals wolframite, scheelite, ferberite, and huebnertie. It's believed about 75% of the world's supply of the element is found in China, although other ore deposits are known in the US, South Korea, Russia, Bolivia, and Portugal. The element is obtained by reducing tungsten oxide from the ore with either hydrogen or carbon. Producing the pure element is difficult, due to its high melting point.

Tungsten is element number 74 with atomic number 74 and atomic weight 183.84. It is one of the transition metals and has a valence of 2, 3, 4, 5, or 6. In compounds, the most common oxidation state is VI. Two crystal forms are common. The body-centered cubic structure is more stable, but another metastable cubic structure may coexist with this form.

The existence of tungsten was suspected in 1781, when Carl Wilhelm Scheele and T.O. Bergman made previously unknown tungstic acid from a material now called scheelite. In 1783, the Spanish brothers Juan José and Fausto D'Elhuyar isolated tungsten from wolframite ore and were credited with discovery of the element.

The element name wolfram came from the name of the ore, wolframite, which derives from the German wolf's rahm, which means "wolf's foam". It got this name because European tin smelters noticed the presence of wolframite in tin ore reduced the tin yield, appearing to eat tin like a wolf would devour sheep. What many people do not know is that the Delhuyar brothers actually proposed the name volfram for the element, as w was not used in the Spanish language at that point. The element was known as wolfram in most European countries, but called tungsten (from Swedish tung sten meaning "heavy stone", referencing the heaviness of scheelite ore) in English. In 2005, the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry dropped the name wolfram entirely, to make the periodic table the same in all countries. This is probably one of the most highly disputed name changes made on the periodic table.

Tungsten has the highest melting point of the metals (6191.6 °F or 3422 °C), lowest vapor pressure, and the highest tensile strength. Its density is comparable to that of gold and uranium and 1.7 times higher than that of lead. While the pure element may be drawn, extruded, cut, forged, and spun, any impurities make tungsten brittle and difficult to work.

The element is conductive and resists corrosion, although metal specimens will develop a characteristic yellowish cast upon exposure to air. A rainbow oxide layer is also possible. It is the 4th hardest element, after carbon, boron, and chromium. Tungsten is susceptible to slight attack by acids, but resists alkali and oxygen.

Top of the form in maths then Kev??

Good morning all. Down to be in horsepiddle till end of week now but what has to be has to be. Doc seems to think I'll make it to my millions waiting for me at LP and beyond...as long as they're not going to drag things out too long (next week would be good for me MM if you're reading this). I just wish a juicy RNS would come out soon to break the mono Tony and lift me spirits, or even a nice box of choccies from Justine at Gable would suffice if someone could drop her a hint? Lying in anticipation

Thanks for all your kind wishes, they're much appreciated. However, the benefit of lying bored to tears in horsepiddle is that as long as you have access to whiffy, you can find out some of the lesser known facts about our nuns at LP. One that particularly caught my attention was that in the early days of the convent , the Abbot used to shear the nuns 6 monthly of their pubic hair, this hair being silkier and finer than the finest angora or merino wool used previously. In fact so fine was the product that the resulting fleece needed no carding and could be spun into a yarn without problems. However the only colour available, the nuns being of Hispanic origin, was black, that was until Abbot Glodden Pious accidentally spilled his Rioja into a vat of fleece being washed (nits everywhere) causing the yarn to obtain a sort of Cardinal red. This came to the attention of the Papacy and Glodden Pious was summoned to Rome to explain the concept. Cardinal red became big in the Catholic church but there were not enough nuns at LP to supply the demand and it was at this point the convent started to be dissolved. Fascinating but true.

Just...thought I'd copped it last night, had to be moved to Intensive Care as pneumonia set in very suddenly. Turned out I only had infection, if I had a blood clot I was in deep poo 50:50 territory. Now back on the mend hopefully. This hasnt been the best two weeks for me, now its snowing and the SP is in the red, what a bugger?

Bob's on the naughty step again, I just can't work out how he does it? Must say there are more snowflakes appearing on this board than there are in Alaska. That's what studying social sciences and joining the local knitting circle does for yer ?

You ain't read nothing yet sunny boy, wait till Troajan gets started.

Hope them Germins are gonna wipe a cloth over our new jig, don't want dirt in our dirt do we?

damned, last time I emailed Justine about news, a Proactive interview was on Twitter just after I sent it and now it's happened again with the pictures, don't think I can take any credit though.

Going to email Justine from me sick pit to see if that'll stir up some news from them. Will let you know response.

Laying in a horsepiddle bed for a few days ought to be comedy script writers dream, except that some of the situations that occur couldn't possibly be screened in this day and age. Admittedly a lot of farting takes centre stage but other occurrings have had me hooting over the years (you had to be there to appreciate them fully). Whilst there is plenty of comedy, of course there is pathos and tragedy in equal measure, as is natural given the circumstances. It's a shame I'm not a screen writer otherwise I'd cash in meself.
Back on topic meanwhile, 7.5m sell late on was a dirty trick, bloody comedian...probably a script writer??

Thanks Bob except my nurse looked like Rita Webb and she was rubbing goose fat on me chest, now it's slipper than Arthur Daley.

Oops, that should read 'Get yer blood flowing...freely from a recent blow to yer skull?'

I wish Bob, not so much as a tickle with a damp Q tip. As for answers, boredom must sharpen the memory. How's yer pipes Bob, did Soulsisters attention get the blood flowing or did yer missus get her blood flowing....freely from a recent blow to her skull?