OK, Jeff

I’m very pro-fungi and let them grow, but if you’re trying to get on The Next Top Garden reality show their presence might be frowned on

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Didn’t get as much done as I wanted, but I had a BLT for dinner with garden tomatoes, so, pretty good so far.

They break down dead woody matter, and don’t attack living plants. They’re really only a problem if you don’t like how they make your garden look.

Yeah, a proliferation of mushrooms growing out of a tree means you should get ready to say goodbye to it. The trees can hang on for a surprisingly long time though (sometimes 10+ years), but it's probably a good idea to start thinking about how to remove the tree with as little fuss as possible.

However, with butt rot fungi, the stump could produce for years to come too, so it's a win if these turn out to be something good.

Could you get a picture of one neatly sliced in half? And just to be safe tell us if you see any structure inside, or if it is totally evenly and uniformly white?

Also, are there any other fully grown mushrooms growing in the immediate area?

Also also, is it a wide open lawn, or are there any trees nearby? And if so, what kind of tree?

Yeah, when it comes to viscoelastics their behavior is so dependent on immediate conditions that we really don't have good words to describe them. It's like the parable of three blind people feeling an elephant, except its' one blind person feeling an elephant at three different times.

Why mosquitos?

Shot in the dark: maybe ringless honey mushrooms)? Might also be weathered jack-o'-lanterns though. Probably a good idea to get a spore print and do some more thorough investigation before tasting them.

Can confirm. Blue-eyed devil. I need sunglasses and a wide brimmed hat even on overcast days, but once I'm adjusted I can see as well in the dark as the average cat.

Mayonnaise is a bingham plastic. It acts like a solid under low stress but flows like a fluid under high stress.

Laetiporus cincinnatus. The white-pored cousin of L. sulphureus (chicken of the woods). Lacks the heavenly aroma of CotW, but still good eats. Good looking specimin too.

When I was an undergrad, they just had a buret loaded with neat Br2 in a fume hood and we dropped it straight into the reaction product (dehydration of cyclohexanol). Don't know if that would work for you tho. I'd imagine your analyte would have to be pretty concentrated to use pure bromine.

Fun aside - there were only three or four fume hoods in that lab (not nearly enough for all the students to work in), and we did most of our work on the bench top and only kept the really nasty stuff in the hoods. For the bromine titration, the profs told us "DO NOT TAKE THE BROMINE BURET OUT OF THE FUME HOODS IT IS EXTREMELY TOXIC". Well, this guy, let's call him "Joe" didn't hear any of that and brought the buret, loaded with brown smoking, ass stinking bromine, over to his workstation and managed to somehow to firehose his area with angry liquid halogen.

Joe had a white T-shirt on that turned pink from all the bromine it absorbed. It bleached the grid pattern out of his lab notebook and the color from his jeans. His face and hands were swollen and red and his eyes were running.

I don't know how 1) you can spill that much during a titration 2) how no one noticed what was going on until it was over, or 3) how Joe didn't end up in the hospital. Weirdest thing, they didn't even treat it like that big of a deal. They got him a new shirt and docked him some safety points, but there wasn't any sort of reckoning. Crazy times.

But you’re not denying it’s rhodium?

It's a solid rhodium bathroom tile, and you are secretly Jeff Bezos.

You still have to clean the pot and the strainer. How is this saving on doing any dishes?

Try scratching it on the unglazed side of a tile. If it leaves a red/brown streak its iron (III) oxide (Fe2O3). If it leaves a black streak its magnetite (Fe3O4).

You might also look into the chemical composition of mill scale. I'd guess the slag might have a similar composition.

Norwegian warships don't have numbers painted on their bows. Instead they have barcodes printed on them.

That way when they get back to port they can Scandinavian.

Some trees bioaccumulate so muck Ni that their sap is blue/green from it. Real good alien blood colors.

Trees that bleed nickel