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[Kilmatead]

So no softness when you post more. So that "myth is busted".

My girlfriend thanks you for your diligence to detail - perhaps he was referring to malleability instead?  I've no idea.  Gave me nightmares for weeks, so I stopped reading his emails.  I stopped listening to heavy metal when I turned 15 anyway.  :roll:

[fgagnon]

continuing off topic @ softness -
hmmm, Talc is classically the softest mineral.
and Wax has less hardness than even talc ... & so is sodium; but the occasional demonstration of "waxing poetic" is perhaps more fitting.    

[Kilmatead]

Talc is classically the softest mineral... and Wax has less hardness than even talc...

For a man (or a mouse) who likes to notice details, I'm ashamed to admit I didn't even notice your tomfoolery until seeing a recent post by WimdeLange this morning (4 days late!) and making the connection .  While I always aspired to be a man of substance when I grew up, I probably assumed (as a child) I would be slightly further up the periodic table.

A man, young lady! lady, such a man
As all the world—why, he's a man of wax.

Remembering The Nurse referring to Paris (he who Juliet was to marry) as a "man of wax" in Romeo and Juliet (Act I, scene 3), I can't help but think you (unintentionally) paid me the greater compliment!  You were perhaps aiming for the pun, but hit literary allusion instead.  Granted, I don't recall "the man of radioactive ooze" being exactly chronicled in Proust or (speaking of Golden Ages) Dostoevsky, but even though he is called the Idiot, Prince Lev Nikolayevich Myshkin strikes the more pure character than his moniker may betray - so there's hope for us all.

As for poor WimdeLange - blossoming with an unexpected versatility, it is disturbing to note that a solution to nappy-rash is also a food-additive.  :shock:

It is often used for surfaces of lab counter tops and electrical switchboards because of its resistance to heat, electricity and acids. Talc finds use as a cosmetic (talcum powder), as a lubricant, and as a filler in paper manufacture. Talc is used in baby powder, an astringent powder used for preventing rashes on the area covered by a diaper (see diaper rash). It is also often used in basketball to keep a player's hands dry. Most tailor's chalk is talc, as is the chalk often used for welding or metalworking.

Talc is also used as food additive or in pharmaceutical products as a glidant. In medicine talc is used as a pleurodesis agent to prevent recurrent pleural effusion or pneumothorax. In the European Union the additive number is E553b.

Indeed, the next time I suffer from "recurrent pleural effusion or pneumothorax" I'll know who to call.

[fgagnon]

I was too busy Friday, but bored Saturday & couldn't resist playing with materials after see the hardness tables Wim posted.
But I didn't mess with the stars this time.  

As for man of wax, I did not intend that inference, so you may soon find your image slightly harder.

[Kilmatead]

As for man of wax, I did not intend that inference, so you may soon find your image slightly harder.

I can't speak for Wim (if we can find him under all his white powder), but I rather like it.  No complaints.  I am not Jean-Claude VanDamme.  (Not everyone aspires to being a pseudo hard-man).  

[Kilmatead]

Mmm, Cæsium (properly spelled too!).  I have a half-life of 30 years - always nice to know (and sounds pretty accurate too).  I always wanted to be a Pyrophorically classified hazardous metal.

[Tuxman]

And women should be careful touching you.