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QI - Gone Fission.
Geggs Posted Feb 12, 2011
I can see your eyes Clive, I know you're there. Is this one exhausted?
Geggs
QI - Gone Fission.
Clive the flying ostrich: Amateur Polymath | Chief Heretic. Posted Feb 12, 2011
I reckon so. 
Got some new QIs brewing in my brain so I think probably best call off the 2010 set, don't you?
QI - Gone Fission.
Clive the flying ostrich: Amateur Polymath | Chief Heretic. Posted Feb 12, 2011
Right the idea behind this one was the Fermi did use the water from the fishpond under the almond trees in the roman lab where he made his discovery about neutrons being slowed by water. On the day of discovery in question researchers are reported to have been taking up water by the bucketful...
The link to indigestion in Manchester is as follows.
Manchester was the place to be for theoretical physics at the turn of the century.
It had brought George de Hevesy in 1911 to develop some of the first medical tracers and he worked in Rutherford's lab alongside Neils Bohr.
However before his radiopharmaceuticals ever went near a patient for imaging, he first demonstrated the detection technique worked by dosing the potato hash his landlady served him.
She declared it to be "fresh each night" but by detecting the unique radioactive signature he demonstrated it was just being re-heated each night - which explained his upset stomach.
In 1923 Hevesy is co-credited with the discovery of the element "Hafnium" named after the Latin "Hafnia" the home-town of Neils Bohr. Bit nerdy fanboyish, but slightly more impressive than getting a tattoo..
QI - Gone Fission.
Clive the flying ostrich: Amateur Polymath | Chief Heretic. Posted Feb 12, 2011
Latin name of Hafnia for Copenhagen the home town of....
QI - Gone Fission.
Clive the flying ostrich: Amateur Polymath | Chief Heretic. Posted Feb 12, 2011
QI - Gone Fission. 
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Correct 
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TodayMueller (50)
"Irradiating / 'Going off'"
Mckay (56)
Fishpond water used in experiment.
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None awarded.
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TodayMueller (2)
"Manchester physics lab"
Pedro (5)
"Water is used in reactors to slow neutrons"
Taff (19)
Drink me"
Gandalf'sTwin (20)
"slightly radioactive"
Gandalf'sTwin (24)
"Barium Meal"
Klaxon 
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Taff (4)
"Any mention of Schrodinger's cat, especially eating fish.
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Clive.
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