Post ArvmTL1ipep79SFNDM by Uair@autistics.life
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 (DIR) Post #ArvmTL1ipep79SFNDM by Uair@autistics.life
       2025-03-11T02:24:03Z
       
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       @chemistry Hello.  I'm watching 2003's "The Corporation", and a doctor of environmental science said, "Something happened in 1940 that allowed us to produce previously unknown chemicals, at quantity, relatively cheaply":It looks like he's talking about petrochemicals, but what happened?  What was the breakthrough?  Can you give me a term I can wiki?Thanks.
       
 (DIR) Post #ArvmTMGeDeMB02Eo7M by magicalthinking@noauthority.social
       2025-03-11T02:25:46Z
       
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       @Uair @chemistry My guess would be transcontinental travel by plane. Mining was possible in places where transportation was previously a problem.
       
 (DIR) Post #Arvmbt10LdAMshzHg8 by Uair@autistics.life
       2025-03-11T02:27:19Z
       
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       @magicalthinking @chemistry I'm pretty sure it was a production process for petrochemicals.  Like how getting aluminum out of bauxite turned it from a rare metal to a beer can.  Or the Bessemer process.
       
 (DIR) Post #ArvmgcTVGv3f1wZgHI by magicalthinking@noauthority.social
       2025-03-11T02:28:12Z
       
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       @Uair @chemistry Beer cans were steel until the 60/70's
       
 (DIR) Post #Arvo8CJyCjWPyipUVU by Uair@autistics.life
       2025-03-11T02:44:22Z
       
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       @magicalthinking @chemistry My grandfather was strong enough to crush one between his palms.  Once at Christmas dinner, he stood up at the table to have a go at Uncle Frank.  The two men on either side of him grabbed an arm, like cops do.  Gramps shrugged them off.  Uncle Frank went and hid in the garage.  This was back in the days before everyone carried guns, and the toughest guy in town basically got to do what he wanted.  He was a Coast Guard captain who did submarine watch off the Jersey coast in WWII.  Thanks for causing me to exhume that memory.Secondary memory: He captained a buoy tender after the war.  Buoy tenders are named after flowers.  He was captain of the Dahlia, and I bet nobody razzed him over it.*****It's electrolysis that gets the aluminum out of bauxite.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bauxite#Aluminium_production
       
 (DIR) Post #ArvoKvDB81tog8ihxg by magicalthinking@noauthority.social
       2025-03-11T02:46:42Z
       
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       @Uair @chemistry 1958, primo beer was the first.I still remember a steel soda can as late as 1976, I think it was a regional bottler still made them. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steel_and_tin_cans
       
 (DIR) Post #ArvoRVDIBgPu4duYme by Uair@autistics.life
       2025-03-11T02:47:52Z
       
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       @magicalthinking @chemistry Thank you.