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From: gadfly@ihlpa.UUCP (Gadfly)
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Subject: Re: Common Household Liquid Without Hydrogen (What Was Answer?)
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Date: Wed, 7-Jan-87 12:08:39 EST
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Posted: Wed Jan  7 12:08:39 1987
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> 
> I believe that CCl4 isn't very common, and is harder to get hold of all 
> the time.
> 
> Tried to buy any lately?

In order to spare the net a second go-round of this (it was tiresome
even the first time), I will summarize briefly:

Q: Name a colorless liquid with no hydrogen in its chemical composition
   commonly found around the house.

A: Glass (silicon dioxide).

See, it's a trick.  Glass is the clearly (heh heh, get it?) desired
mass-consumption pop-quiz answer.  A long discussion followed about
whether glass is really a liquid.  I do not have an informed opinion.
The majority of technical postings claimed that glass is not truly a
liquid.

Other answers given were carbon tetrachloride, though (as the above
posting indicates) it's not all that common, and mercury, though it
begs the definition of "colorless".

ENOUGH!

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