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[Areze]

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SEX is the official abbreviation of sodium ethyl xanthate, which is a flotation agent used in the mining industry. Apparently you can get SEX in both solid and liquid forms (should that be hard and wet SEX?), and according to Australia's National Industrial Chemicals Notification and Assessment Scheme signs of high exposure to SEX include 'dizziness, tremors, difficulty breathing, blurred vision, headaches, vomiting and death'. Sound familiar...?
On a related note, there's another flotation reagent, KAX, potassium amyl xanthate, which has the same function, and the same smell!

I laughed for like 10 minutes when I heard this. Here's more:

http://www.chm.bris....s/sillymols.htm

EDIT: I don't think it was a mineral, but it was on a page full of them, my bad.

Edited by Nightshadow, 15 March 2007 - 03:44.

[Waris]

Old info.

[Soul]

Well this is the first time I've heard about SEX.

[TheDR]

SEX never heard of it

[Soul]

What I said sounds funnier IMO.

[Kris]

LOL, Thanks for the info

[E.V.E.]

Na Na Na Boyz ...



- E.V.E.

[Futschki]

so they make sex in laboratories ?

[Areze]

Apparently. Here's another:

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ASS

This is the commonly used acronym for argininosuccinate synthetase, which is a chemical found in the brain. So it seems some people really do think with their ASSes...