For young and youngish men of a certain disposition (regarding copper), these are exciting times, as this medical report attests. The report is: “Electrical burn injuries secondary to copper theft,” J.A. Dunne, D. J. Wilks, D.P. Mather, and J.M. Rawlins, European Journal of Trauma and Emergency Surgery, epub 2015. The authors, at St George’s Hospital, London, […]
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The Case of the Oleaginous Inlet
Ammonia is one of the few substances to give intergranular cracking on copper and brass. But how did ammonia get in contact with the tubing? Ammonia was not involved in manufacturing or installation. I scratched my head a good bit and came up with two possibilities that could have occurred during storage. One was that […]
