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Can you Guess What This Picture Is?

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Re: Can you Guess What This Picture Is?
« Reply #2860 on: 27/04/2009 04:53:44 »
is the surface its sitting on organic?
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Re: Can you Guess What This Picture Is?
« Reply #2861 on: 27/04/2009 04:59:25 »
is that surface actually a thin horizontal line eg like the spider web or is it wider than a line and extends closer to the camera but merely is not visible?
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Re: Can you Guess What This Picture Is?
« Reply #2862 on: 27/04/2009 05:04:32 »
Quote from: sillymilly on 27/04/2009 04:53:44
is the surface its sitting on organic?

No

Quote from: sillymilly on 27/04/2009 04:59:25
is that surface actually a thin horizontal line eg like the spider web or is it wider than a line and extends closer to the camera but merely is not visible?

The later - it extends towards the camera.

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Re: Can you Guess What This Picture Is?
« Reply #2863 on: 27/04/2009 05:05:46 »
PTFE fabric (a.k.a. Gore-Tex) ?, or PTFE surface (a.k.a. Teflon) ?.
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Re: Can you Guess What This Picture Is?
« Reply #2864 on: 27/04/2009 05:06:49 »
Getting closer
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Re: Can you Guess What This Picture Is?
« Reply #2865 on: 27/04/2009 05:34:28 »
So it's some sort of synthetic material?
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Re: Can you Guess What This Picture Is?
« Reply #2866 on: 27/04/2009 05:41:26 »
Oui, mon ami
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Re: Can you Guess What This Picture Is?
« Reply #2867 on: 27/04/2009 05:47:07 »
Better hurry up C4, it is nearly my bedtime!!
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Re: Can you Guess What This Picture Is?
« Reply #2868 on: 27/04/2009 05:55:44 »
Oh sorry, but I don't understand French!
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Re: Can you Guess What This Picture Is?
« Reply #2869 on: 27/04/2009 05:56:13 »
I said "Yes, my friend"
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Re: Can you Guess What This Picture Is?
« Reply #2870 on: 27/04/2009 05:59:18 »
Nano fibres?
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Re: Can you Guess What This Picture Is?
« Reply #2871 on: 27/04/2009 06:01:14 »
Nyet
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Re: Can you Guess What This Picture Is?
« Reply #2872 on: 27/04/2009 06:06:17 »
Looks a lot like

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Re: Can you Guess What This Picture Is?
« Reply #2873 on: 27/04/2009 06:08:23 »
But what is the material? - you found a picture.
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Re: Can you Guess What This Picture Is?
« Reply #2874 on: 27/04/2009 06:15:41 »
Glass?
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Re: Can you Guess What This Picture Is?
« Reply #2875 on: 27/04/2009 06:15:53 »
No
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Re: Can you Guess What This Picture Is?
« Reply #2876 on: 27/04/2009 06:17:03 »


Asbestos?
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Re: Can you Guess What This Picture Is?
« Reply #2877 on: 27/04/2009 06:25:27 »
You'd better go to bed JimBob, I'm off now. [:)]
Only 1643 posts to go! We're gaining on them son! We're gaining!
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Re: Can you Guess What This Picture Is?
« Reply #2878 on: 27/04/2009 06:26:31 »
Nope,

As I am going to need to go to bed - I have a conference call in 9.5 hours - I will leave you with a hint. The substrate is MADE from rocks.
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Re: Can you Guess What This Picture Is?
« Reply #2879 on: 27/04/2009 06:26:55 »
Quote from: Chemistry4me on 27/04/2009 06:25:27
You'd better go to bed JimBob, I'm off now. [:)]
Only 1643 posts to go! We're gaining on them son! We're gaining!

I just said that!!!
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