Nice post William, except for one little physics detail....


On Wed, 27 Sep 1995, William E. Sadler wrote:

> O2....is a metal.  
> 

As you know, for the range of temps and pressures divers are concerned 
with O2 is a gas. none-the-less, the O2 molecules are each  "magnets" due 
to the way they bond individual Oxygen atoms together.

if you have some liquid nitrogen, you can liquify O2 gas by dipping it in 
the ln2 to make lox. the liquified O2 will be drawn towards a magnet, but 
the lox is an insulator--not a metal.


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