July 21, 2016 Thursday
Thanks to Bits, today we made an audacious move.
To fight evil, one needs to be tenaciously unflinching.
My mother gave us the green flag.
The first element with which our love affair began was indubitably the copper.
With the atomic number of 29 (one less than 30), it is stationed in the fourth row somewhere right center (it could not have been left considering its business and commercial activities).
Copper usage has been found in the earliest civilizations of the Fertile Crescent (the bridge between Africa our birthplace and Eurasia, our migration destination) dating back to 9000 B.C. (11,000 years ago).
In Anatolia (Asian Turkey or Asia Minor, the Western most protrusion of Asia), the civilization had mastered the art of smelting copper.
Smelting is a type of extractive metallurgy, meaning processing a pure metal from the natural ore.
Another thing the early civilizations had learnt (independently at different places) was cold working (or work hardening) of the copper.
They would heat the copper to soften it and they would hammer it to the shape they would desire.
They could fashion sharp instruments out of this process like axe, knives, choppers which were great tools of meat processing, hunting and of course, warfare.
Wherever human apes or animals are, wars are never behind;
In all the animal kingdom no other species has organized and perfected the warfare and systematic mass killings like we have done.
As we "progress", this perfection keeps on getting better.
Another process that our early civilized (I use this term with lots of hesitation) ancestors had learnt was annealing.
They had found, by trial and error of course, that heating copper alters its chemical and physical properties.
Why it happened, they had no idea.
But we know, and hence u must know too.
The answer lies in the all powerful and predictive atomic theory.
The heating results in diffusion of atoms within the solid copper as the heat breaks the bonds which was maintaining the lattice structure.
Technically, the process of annealing reduces the Gibbs free energy.
But our ancestors were more busy in surviving, feeding, reproducing and warring than to go into science of understanding.
Much like we do today.
Stay tuned to the voice of an average storytelling chimpanzee or login at http://panarrans.blogspot.in/
Good night mon ami and my fellow cousin ape.
Thanks to Bits, today we made an audacious move.
To fight evil, one needs to be tenaciously unflinching.
My mother gave us the green flag.
The first element with which our love affair began was indubitably the copper.
With the atomic number of 29 (one less than 30), it is stationed in the fourth row somewhere right center (it could not have been left considering its business and commercial activities).
Copper usage has been found in the earliest civilizations of the Fertile Crescent (the bridge between Africa our birthplace and Eurasia, our migration destination) dating back to 9000 B.C. (11,000 years ago).
In Anatolia (Asian Turkey or Asia Minor, the Western most protrusion of Asia), the civilization had mastered the art of smelting copper.
Smelting is a type of extractive metallurgy, meaning processing a pure metal from the natural ore.
Another thing the early civilizations had learnt (independently at different places) was cold working (or work hardening) of the copper.
They would heat the copper to soften it and they would hammer it to the shape they would desire.
They could fashion sharp instruments out of this process like axe, knives, choppers which were great tools of meat processing, hunting and of course, warfare.
Wherever human apes or animals are, wars are never behind;
In all the animal kingdom no other species has organized and perfected the warfare and systematic mass killings like we have done.
As we "progress", this perfection keeps on getting better.
Another process that our early civilized (I use this term with lots of hesitation) ancestors had learnt was annealing.
They had found, by trial and error of course, that heating copper alters its chemical and physical properties.
Why it happened, they had no idea.
But we know, and hence u must know too.
The answer lies in the all powerful and predictive atomic theory.
The heating results in diffusion of atoms within the solid copper as the heat breaks the bonds which was maintaining the lattice structure.
Technically, the process of annealing reduces the Gibbs free energy.
But our ancestors were more busy in surviving, feeding, reproducing and warring than to go into science of understanding.
Much like we do today.
Stay tuned to the voice of an average storytelling chimpanzee or login at http://panarrans.blogspot.in/
Good night mon ami and my fellow cousin ape.
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