🌊 Miniature octopuses, scuba tanks, life rafts, flippers, sharks and some very rare green dragons are still washing ashore along the Cornwall coast today, 25 years after a container of Lego was washed off the deck of a cargo ship.
Children loved to play with toys in #Roman times too: some 1,800 years ago, a child in Cologne was buried with a terracotta #horse with a rider on wheels. It was certainly a much-loved #toy which the child was also supposed to play with in the afterlife.
A #Roman wooden sword found in the civilian settlement of the Saalburg fort. It was probably a child's #toy influenced by the military in the nearby fort - maybe it belonged to a 'military brat' who liked to mimic the exploits of the father.
This is a recent #crochet kids' #toy I made for a little boy, who was so excited to receive it that he took it on holiday with him and his Mum sent me photos of the two of them on the plane together 😊 I love it when I get to see their wee beaming faces. #crocheting#fibreart#toys#amigurumi
A great honor to have "When Carousels Dream" place third in the 5/17/2024 #FineArtAmerica contest "Circus" held by the Symbolism Group! Many thanks to group / contest administrator, June Walker, and to everyone who voted for my image. Congratulations to the other winners!!!
So, we're going back to organic chemistry everyone!
After my first post with my molecular model kit showing an environmental contaminant, I decided to post up another.
This one is a semi-volatile organic environmental contaminant that is commonly found in coal tar, mothballs, and mixed into creosote for rail ties. That distinct "mothball odor" is this compound! Fun fact - a human nose can detect the mothball odor before most standard electronic detectors of organic odors / vapors.
Can you guess the compound? Let me know in the comments!
Welcome back to another round of organic chemistry with MDMRN.
Once again, I've taken my molecular model kit to craft a new molecule. This one, frankly, I was able to craft using the pieces of the previous ones I presented before. While I didn't say it last time, the green represents a halogen, in this case specifically chlorine.
A hint is that the production of these types of compounds has been banned in numerous countries, including the United States. It was, historically, found in electrical transformers.
Can you guess what type of compound this is? Let me know in the comments!
We have a new friend at @ballarat#Hackerspace… Scooter 2000 is in for some surgery, at minimum some muscle repairs but possibly full organ transplants to get a new lease on life.
If you know anything about Scooter please feel free to tell us more, all we can find online is it was from “the 80s”, but not much detail on exactly when/where/etc.