Re: Note : Pi 2 Zero W Now RIP-OFF Price on Amazon

On 10/08/2026 10:43, Daniel James wrote:
> On 08/08/2026 18:44, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
>> But Corium is real and exists. And nasty
> 
> Yes ... but the formation of the word is similar. It is a jokey made-up 
> name that suggests that it is a pure substance, when it is actually an 
> ad-hoc mixture of nuclear fuel, moderator, reactor wall materials, 
> concrete, and random shit that happened to get in the way when the 
> reactor melted.
>

  hardly jokey and all names are 'made up...

Curium is a synthetic radioactive chemical element with the symbol Cm 
and atomic number 96. Named after scientists Marie and Pierre Curie, it 
was first produced in 1944 by bombarding plutonium with alpha particles. 
It is also the name of a major global radiopharmaceutical company

Selenium. Named after the noon because it was found along with 
tellurium, meaning Earth...

Tungsten: Derived from Swedish (tung + sten) because the mineral ore is 
very dense and heavy.

Wolfram (Chemical Symbol W): Comes from the mineral wolframite. The name 
originates from German tin miners. They called it wolfram because the 
mineral hindered tin extraction by "devouring" the tin like a wolf eats 
a sheep (wolf + ram/foam)

and so on....

Corium comes from a reactor CORE

nothing jokey about it

Unobtanium follows the same rules, and the joke is that the first part 
means it doesn't exist or cant be sourced.

Like fairy farts and unicorn dung

> As you say: Nasty. I wouldn't use the elephant's foot from Chernobyl as 
> an umbrella stand!
> 

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