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Originally posted by MathiasAndrew
Here's an interesting list of chemicals used by the US military.
What the exact purpose and usage of these chemicals is, I do not know.
Check it out..... key items aluminum, barium, strontium
www.hummelcroton.com...
For more info on each chemical listed try this list
Report warns of man-made threats to Grand Canyon National Park
..."What people don't often know about the park is how threatened it is," he said. If action isn't taken, "the conditions at the park will continue to deteriorate," Nimkin added.
The Colorado River, the very force that helped create the canyon in the first place, is one area of concern.
The river flow through the canyon "has been profoundly impacted by management decisions upstream" when the Glen Canyon Dam was built creating Lake Powell, Nimkin said.
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Originally posted by Eurisko2012
reply to post by soficrow
I think the Grand Canyon was here before any of us were born.
The Grand Canyon will continue to be here millions of years after we are all dead, buried
and forgotten.
Originally posted by luxordelphi
reply to post by Aloysius the Gaul
Hey Gaul...on your wikipedia strontium explanation...I'm confused. I don't think the military is using strontium to make toothpaste for sensitive teeth. But I could be wrong. Are they?
I'm not a chemistry expert but then neither are you but maybe you could explain what the military is using strontium for.
I found strontium 90 used in depleted uranium weaponry where it is aerosolized and inhalable as nano size.
www.wordiq.com...
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The Pentagon’s case was not helped in 1999 when the Department of Energy (DoE) was forced to admit that America’s DU weapons were not pure U-238, but were laced with small amounts of U-236, plutonium, neptunium, americium, and nearly 200 other unstable transuranic elements and fission by-products, including strontium-90 and Cesium-137.[40] It seems that for many years Union Carbide, Martin Marietta, and Lockheed Martin, the companies that produced the enriched uranium for Uncle Sam, made a practice of recycling spent reactor fuel back into the enrichment process. They did so for purely economic reasons. When the price of U-235 rose enough, it became profitable to recover more of the preferred U-235 fraction in this way. As a result, the DU waste stream became a witches brew of unstable isotopes and daughter products, none of them naturally-occurring. All are created in reactors and every one is thousands of times more radioactive than U-238.
40 DoE press release: Past Recycled Uranium Programs Under Review as Energy Department Investigation Continues (provides updated information on Cold War era operations), September 29, 1999. NATO was forced to make a similar admission in 2001 after the UNEP team independently assayed DU fragments from Kosovo. NATO press release, January 18, 2001
USES: Strontium peroxide is used for bleaching, medicine, pyrotechnics, flares and tracer ammunition.
USES: Strontium oxalate is used in the manufacture of pyrotechnic compositions.
USES: Strontium nitrate is used in pyrotechnics for production of red color, signal lights, marine signals, railroad flares and in matches.
Hummel Chemical Company was founded In 1913 under a partnership of Mr. August Hummel and Mr. Robinson. Twenty years later Mr. Hummel acquired full control of the Company. The offices were on Cedar and West Streets in Lower Manhattan. The plant was located in Brooklyn. Mr. Hummel catered his business to the display fireworks industry. With the outbreak of World War II many of Mr. Hummel’s display fireworks customers became ordnance manufacturers.
SERVICE TO GOVERMENT AND INDUSTRY SINCE 1913
Originally posted by MathiasAndrew
Here's an interesting list of chemicals used by the US military.
What the exact purpose and usage of these chemicals is, I do not know.
Check it out..... key items aluminum, barium, strontium
Oh so you DO know what the military can use strontium for - so why did say you did not know??
Strontium sulfate (SrSO4) is the sulfate salt of strontium. It is a white crystalline powder and occurs in nature as the mineral celestine. It is poorly soluble in water to the extent of 1 part in 8,800.
Many sulfate salts are highly soluble in water. Exceptions include calcium sulfate, strontium sulfate, and barium sulfate, which are poorly soluble.
Environmental effects Sulfates occur as microscopic particles (aerosols) resulting from fossil fuel and biomass combustion. They increase the acidity of the atmosphere and form acid rain.
Main effects on climate The first (direct) effect is to scatter light, effectively increasing the Earth's albedo. This effect is moderately well understood and leads to a cooling from the negative radiative forcing
The first indirect effect is also known as the Twomey effect. Sulfate aerosols can act as cloud condensation nuclei and this leads to greater numbers of smaller droplets of water. Lots of smaller droplets can diffuse light more efficiently than just a few larger droplets.
The second indirect effect is the further knock-on effects of having more cloud condensation nuclei. It is proposed that these include the suppression of drizzle, increased cloud height (Pincus & Baker 1994), to facilitate cloud formation at low humidities and longer cloud lifetime (Albrecht 1989).
Sulfate may also result in changes in the particle size distribution, which can affect the clouds radiative properties in ways that are not fully understood.
Sulfates are therefore implicated in global dimming, which may have acted to offset some of the effects of global warming.
I think ....
Not more than 80 years ago the mighty Colorado River flowed unhindered from northern Colorado through Utah, the Grand Canyon, Arizona, and Mexico before pouring out into the Gulf of California. But as one can see in this image of the Colorado River Delta taken on September 8, 2000, by the Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER), flying aboard the Terra spacecraft, irrigation and urban sprawl now prevent the river from reaching its final destination.
The Colorado River can be seen in dark blue at the topmost central part of this image. The river comes to an end just south of the multicolored patchwork of farmlands in the northwestern corner of the image and then fans out at the base of the Sierra de Juarez Mountains. A hundred years ago the river would have cut through this entire picture and plowed straight through to the Gulf of California, the mouth of which can be seen in solid blue at the lower righthand corner of the image. Nearly all the water that flows into the Colorado River is now siphoned off for use in crop irrigation and for residential use. In fact, roughly only 10 percent of all the water that flows into the Colorado makes it into Mexico and most of that is used by the Mexican people for farming.
Originally posted by MathiasAndrew
reply to post by Aloysius the Gaul
Oh so you DO know what the military can use strontium for - so why did say you did not know??
Get a life ATG, the link I posted has over 100 different chemicals listed with Military use. When I said I did not know what they are being used for, it meant I did not know why the MILITARY was using them.
There's a lot more uses for all of those chemicals than I listed, you listed or wiki lists. They are not exactly going to list chemtrails as one of the uses are they?
Originally posted by soficrow
reply to post by Eurisko2012
I think ....
An excellent endeavor. Just couple that capacity with some up-to-date hard information and you might have something going.
Not more than 80 years ago the mighty Colorado River flowed unhindered from northern Colorado through Utah, the Grand Canyon, Arizona, and Mexico before pouring out into the Gulf of California. But as one can see in this image of the Colorado River Delta taken on September 8, 2000, by the Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER), flying aboard the Terra spacecraft, irrigation and urban sprawl now prevent the river from reaching its final destination.
The Colorado River can be seen in dark blue at the topmost central part of this image. The river comes to an end just south of the multicolored patchwork of farmlands in the northwestern corner of the image and then fans out at the base of the Sierra de Juarez Mountains. A hundred years ago the river would have cut through this entire picture and plowed straight through to the Gulf of California, the mouth of which can be seen in solid blue at the lower righthand corner of the image. Nearly all the water that flows into the Colorado River is now siphoned off for use in crop irrigation and for residential use. In fact, roughly only 10 percent of all the water that flows into the Colorado makes it into Mexico and most of that is used by the Mexican people for farming.
What is wrong with crop irrigation?
Induced seismicity refers to typically minor earthquakes and tremors that are caused by human activity that alters the stresses and strains on the Earth's crust.
Originally posted by soficrow
reply to post by Eurisko2012
What is wrong with crop irrigation?
Same thing that's wrong with mining, drilling for oil and all the rest of it:
Induced seismicity refers to typically minor earthquakes and tremors that are caused by human activity that alters the stresses and strains on the Earth's crust.
Then, quakes trigger quakes. Next thing you know, the earth's crust is being displaced.
Seriously, the strains on the Colorado River and Grand Canyon do not bode well.