Re: 1: Is This Nuts? 2: A Plug

Dear All,

Thank you for the reassuring psychiatric evaluation, for a new word
and the desire for a new experience with wintergreen lifesavers. If
the lifesavers came in little tins, this email thread could come full
circle.

Tom

----- Original Message -----
From: "Achal Pashine" Tuesday, October 15, 2002 5:09 PM
Subject: Re: [pinhole-discussion] 1: Is This Nuts? 2: A Plug

> Do you mean, triboluminescence of Lifesaver??
> achal.
>
> > --- Tom Miller <twmiller@mr.net> wrote:
> > > Dear List Members,
> > >
> > > 1: I've noticed that when pulling electrician's
> > > tape off the roll in
> > > complete darkness there is a small greenish light at
> > > the spot where
> > > the tape is pulling off the roll. Recently, I made
> > ..snip..
> > Oh, I see that too. I forget the technical name for
> > it, but I remember doing an experiment in high school
> > where you cracked a wintergreen lifesaver in the dark
> > and it created a similar brief light -- imagine 30
> > high school students breaking lifesavers in the dark.
> > Brave teacher, no? I think it's the same
> > physics/chemistry involved.
> >
Received on Wed Oct 16 09:57:56 2002