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To: Old Professer

30,000 rpm is the limit. Maybe there is a crystalline structure that can take more. Electrons orbit their atoms at nearly the speed of light when the nucleus has Z=147; that is 147 protons. Sets a maximum mass to elements because there is a limit to how many neutrons can pack in there.


27 posted on 08/25/2004 2:43:54 PM PDT by RightWhale (Withdraw from the 1967 UN Outer Space Treaty and establish property rights)
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To: RightWhale
30,000 rpm is the limit.

Myth Busters mounted a CD on a shaper, and I think they had to boost the speed to get it to shatter. Around 30K RPM, iirc.

Routers, and plain old CD drives just wouldn't do it.

65 posted on 08/25/2004 7:16:15 PM PDT by Calvin Locke
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