Re: Has this been used?

On Sat, 19 Apr 2008 20:50:54 +0100, spam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Jonathan L
Cunningham) wrote:

When boiling stuff in the school chemistry lab, there were chips you
could put into the bottom of a beaker to stop that happening (super
heating the water) - but I forget what they are called. (I'm still,
clearly, suffering from insufficient tea, here.)

We just called those boiling chips. I don't think you'd want them in
anything you were going to drink, though, but probably you could get some
kind of harmless substitute.


--
chuk
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