Rhenium is a metal that is solid at room tempeature, and has a density of 20.8 grams per cubic centimeter. It was discovered by the German chemists Ida Tacke-Noddack, Walter Noddack and Otto Carl Berg in 1925. They detected rhenium spectroscopically in platinum ores and in the minerals columbite ((Fe, Mn, Mg)(Nb, Ta)2O6), gadolinite ((Ce, La, Nd, Y)2FeBe2Si2O10) and molybdenite (MoS2). Rhenium is present in these materials only in trace amounts. In 1928, Noddack and Berg were able to extract 1 gram of rhenium from 660 kilograms of molybdenite. Today, rhenium is obtained as a byproduct of refining molybdenum and copper.
Rhenium is used in flash lamps for photography and for filaments in mass spectrographs and ion gages, but is most frequently used as an alloying agent in tungsten and molybdenum and as a catalyst for performing certain reactions to a type of hydrocarbon known as an olefin.
Estimated Crustal Abundance: 7×10-4 milligrams per kilogram
Estimated Oceanic Abundance: 4×10-6 milligrams per liter
What's your estimated crustal abundance? Sorry, that's probably too personal.
Wait a minute, WHAT!?! How on earth does this have anything to do with geocaching??? So glad you asked! There are at least 5 geocaches concerning rhenium in the United States, one in the Ocala National Forest in Florida (https://coord.info/GC5D10J) [sadly, Film Can Barbie had to archive this one], one in northwest Houston, Texas, one in New Mexico half-way between Los Cruces and El Paso, and two (yup, TWO!) in Minnesota. One is south of Minneapolis, and the other is west of it. Hmmmmm. Oh, we should also mention that there is a rhenium hide in Western Australia as well, just south of Perth. See, now you're thinking about a road trip, aren't you?!? So why, why you ask are there two of thes hides in Minnesota??? Because that's where the Periodic Table of Eelements Challenge cache (https://coord.info/GC2P5TJ) is hidden, silly!
Starting to all mkae sense yet? NO???!??? Harrumph. Come to the event and ask a puzzle cacher then, they'll help you see the light. Anyway....
The Carroll County Caching Fellowship (C3F) cordially invites you to enjoy the pleasures of the social side of the geocaching hobby! To find out who we are and what we're about, please visit http://c3f.finditlogitspreadit.info. Come on out and meet fellow cachers, share stories of your trials and tribulations (or Trials and Tubulations!) in searching for that elusive hide, and swap travel bugs and geocoins. Here's a chance for you to experience the part of the hobby that doesn't feature poison ivy, ticks, mosquitos, chiggers, leeches, cockleburs, beggar's lice, thorns or greenbriar! Instead, come observe the oddities of human behavior as your fellow cachers wander 'round the parking lot scribbling down codes from trackable vehicles, shooting photos of each other's nametags, and generally examining each other closely to insure they have not missed a trackable t-shirt, bracelet, earings or necklace! Hear tales of DNF woe (bring extra kleenex, would ya'?). Hear tales of FTF triumph (bring extra champagne will ya'?).
Regular attendees at this monthly event include some truly stellar cachers from our local area, who are filled with caching wisdom, friendly, and eager to share their experience and help answer questions if you need assistance. If you are new to geocaching, we are eager to get your caching career off to an excellent start! We have master puzzle cachers, master woodsmen, geotrail kings and queens, prolific cachers, and once-in-a-whilers. We have Rogi! We have bugs! We have way too much hype and excitement!
But beyond all that, with all sincerity, we have a tremendous group of regular attendees who are always looking for ways to give back to the geocaching community, and are truly a pleasure to be around. All are welcome, so please come and join the crowd!
Makes you all weepy, don't it? Ok let's get back to being silly!
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THE GOVERNMENT OF ELDERSBURG INTERRUPTS THIS ANNOUNCEMENT TO INFORM YOU THAT THIS EVENT HAS BEEN KNOWN TO CAUSE THE SPREAD OF THE ZTB VIRUS. PARTICIPANTS MAY BE EXPOSED TO MORBID HUMOR, EDGAR ALLEN POE REFERENCES, AND SUBTLE, SUBLIMINAL AFFECTS WHICH MAY CAUSE THE DESIRE TO EAT SPAM. ATTENDANCE OF THIS EVENT MAY RESULT IN, BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO SHAMBLING, DROOLING, MOANING, A CRAVING FOR SWEETBREADS, REALITY ALTERING PERCEPTIONS, AND A SERIOUSLY UNPLEASANT AND PERSISTENT BODY ODOR.
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Bah. Pesky government weenies. Just because there was a huge breakout of zombie travel bugs all over the planet recently doesn't mean it is a problem here. That's a bunch of malarkey! There IS NO GOVERNMENT in Eldersburg. It is just a census designated place (CDP), whatever that means. Come on out, it'll be just fine!
We will be continuing geocaching crash courses in 2016. At the beginning of each session, we'll conduct a ten minute crash course in some aspect of geocaching, just to get the juices flowing and the conversations started (really this is a vain attempt to keep the puzzle cachers off topic, it never works). This month's topic, will be: Power caching on Power Island with Powerful C3F Power cachers, presented by Deepdish23 productions, in collaboration with Alzarius Enterprises and Zeke International. Produced by Simon Says, LLC. Got a request? Post it in your "will attend" log!
Be sure to ask Zekester what "Be the Bug" means! No, it is not a virus!!!
Also, there are a number of caches nearby in Eldersburg, be sure to check them out!
For whom: This event is for YOU!!! Regardless of whether you have found a handful of caches or thousands of them, or you just have a burgeoning interest, all are welcome! We don't bite (well our zombies do, but we don't) , we're really nice! Honest! Ask anyone!
When? 6:00PM to 8:00PM, on Tuesday, 16AUG2016.
Where? Panera Bread, 6300 Georgetown Boulevard, Eldersburg, Maryland (or just use the convenient coordinates posted above!).
Why? Have dinner. Meet a cacher. Tell a tale. Trade a coin or travel bug. Meet Rogi! Find out what "Be the Bug" means!
IMPORTANT NOTE: You are not required to purchase anything to attend this event.
It's Madonna's Birthday!!! Come dressed in your favorite negligee!!! Or leather!!! Or nothing at all!!! [Alternatively, you could come dressed as Fess Parker, or Eydie Gorme, whos share this birthday with Madonna].
This month's raffle may feature a variety of materials useful to cachers, possibly including, but not limited to: 6 volts of surging power, test tubes, tesla coils, erlenmeyer flasks filled with eau de manbear, leftover unused materials from the zombie vats, surplus from the Mercury program, a Winnebago, a haiku puzzle cache, a fully operational TV B Gone, magnetic toroids, an excellent recipe for oysters kirkpatrick, a stuffed whistle-pig, india ink, the ball from an IBM Selectric typewriter, U-bolts, lug nuts, filberts, a pheasant claw, night-vision goggles, geocacher cremains, marbles, a meteorite, one hobnail boot (left one, men's 45), a funnel (it was not used in the production of more turkeys, we promise), two potatoes, a virginal, coriander, a skeleton key, an exultation of larks, tweezers, an egg cuber, a hard copy of the budget of the Unites Sates from 1953, eyeglass repair kits, a condom autograophed by "Smokey" from Las Vegas (we found it in a cache at the Pinball Hall of Fame), a quill pen, O-rings, D-rings, Sawyer, un-hatched Man-Goose eggs (fertilization status unlknown), anisette biscotti, scratch-n'-sniff test cards, a FrogKing, filet mignon, flibberty-gibbets, a harpoon (BUT NO HATCHETS!!!), one unused but fully operational fornistat and a Bergonic Chair (we tried it on Alzarius, but it didn't work). Sometimes there's unmentionables too!. That's right unmentionables (pathtags). Imagine that!
If you pick up a travel bug, please make sure that make sure you log it out so it doesn't show up in the event list.
We are deeply grateful for the joy all of you bring us each month, and for your forebearance with these ridiculous event write-ups!