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Help Identifying Something
Posted: Fri Sep 30, 2011 8:20 pm
by PVC Arsenal 17
I found this on the ground and I have absolutely no idea what it is.
It's a small glittered plastic container with ten sides. If you pop the two halves apart, inside are dozens of small steel discs of various diameters mixed with white powder. On one half of the container is a raised outline of a gymnast and on the other half is a raised outline of a balance beam. I have no idea what this be used for.
Any ideas?
Posted: Fri Sep 30, 2011 8:24 pm
by Moonbogg
Hand chalk perhaps? The pieces inside used to shake and keep the chalk from clumping together?
Posted: Fri Sep 30, 2011 8:38 pm
by PVC Arsenal 17
Judging by how difficult it was to open, I don't think the contents were meant to be used. The volume it contains would be too small to be effective. The whole thing is about the diameter of a penny.
Posted: Fri Sep 30, 2011 8:44 pm
by Fnord
Weather balloon?
That's odd. I guess the only fool-proof thing to do would be run a sample of the powder through your neighbor's mass spectrometer (he does have one, right?), to determine the composition, or at least inhale it through a straw.
edit you know what, I need to start leaving random unidentifiable stuff like this laying around when I go places. I shall make this into a new sport and call it GeoTrolling.
Posted: Fri Sep 30, 2011 8:55 pm
by Mr.Tallahassee
Thank you Fnord, I now have a purpose in life.
Posted: Fri Sep 30, 2011 9:01 pm
by Moonbogg
No idea then. It could be toxic so watch it. I don't mean stare at it or anything, just don't eat it or shove it in your eyeball.
Posted: Fri Sep 30, 2011 9:19 pm
by mattyzip77
Maybe it was a gymnasts pill case/holder to keep they're steroids hidden in before a meet???????
Posted: Fri Sep 30, 2011 9:35 pm
by Crna Legija
lol the top bit looks like a galvanized iron plug and the bottom one looks a a cap
Posted: Fri Sep 30, 2011 10:10 pm
by PVC Arsenal 17
The container is plastic. I think it was used as some kind of weight. No idea really.
Posted: Sat Oct 01, 2011 10:47 am
by Gippeto
Drawing a blank, I can only suggest the following for a young fella to try...
Meet yourself a nice little gymnast and ask her.
Posted: Sat Oct 01, 2011 12:13 pm
by saefroch
Check solubility of the white powder in water and some nonpolar solvent like gasoline. Then find the mass and volume and calculate the density of the discs.
I second Gippeto's suggestion.
Posted: Sat Oct 01, 2011 12:24 pm
by jackssmirkingrevenge
Posted: Sun Oct 02, 2011 3:08 pm
by jrrdw
Old pill box given to a child for trinket keeping then lost by said child and found some time later by you. That's my guess.
Posted: Sun Oct 02, 2011 3:11 pm
by cammyd32
Thank you Fnord, I now have a purpose in life.
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