“As with laboratory lime water, the calcium hydroxide solution reacts when exposed to the air, forming calcium carbonate - the stalactite. So concrete stalactites form where rain water can percolate through the concrete.” Occasionally, even the mortar between bricks is sufficient to generate a stalactite.”
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Fascinating! Thx for elaborating 
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You’re welcome.
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I dunno’ . . . I think my answer is more scientifically accurate 
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I am a HUGE fan of “because, because”.
But of course your answer was more informative than that.
But I do still like, “because because” because I’m into the simple stuff… LoL.
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Personally I like because just because it’s usually accurate.
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Then you will enjoy this tune (I hope):
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I have no idea what that means, but I like it!
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Oh God, they’re both still here. Calculating how much Absolute is in our cabinets.
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What??? I thought it was a short visit? Are they staying until there’s no Absolut left?
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Stay strong @retrospek! Think ahead to how blissful it will be when they leave.
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We have them in our office parking. I think they used to salt the top (open) parking area, and water and salt eventually leaks through the concrete, forming stalactites.
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Yeah, I failed Chemistry class. Bigly. This has been enlightening 
I stopped in Math at Geometry in sophomore year (barely passing), and stopped in Science at Biology (also sophomore year, and didn’t do much better than Geometry).
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I had no choice but keep going. In Germany, you had to take at least two natural science classes until graduation. I kept math and … biology? Can’t even remember now.
My math grade improved greatly when I developed a massive crush on teacher in 10th grade 
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O.M.G. That is terrible.
Shoot, thanks to LindaWhit, potato pancakes are now on my mind
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Weird, I sucked at geometry. But Algebra II and trig and then calculus in college?
Same for science . . . bio and chem were a struggle, but physics?
I guess I’m more theoretical than practical 
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I’m decidedly the opposite. While I enjoyed all the experiments in chemistry tremendously, and found ‘whatever it is we did’ in physics (trying to create electrical circuits? at which I sucked?), but I never quite understood what was going on, and I couldn’t for the life of me remember the many formulas 
I recall frictionless model cars. And exams that often had a “fictional Kim” doing weird things like firing a gun while jumping out of a moving plane (velocity, force?) followed by a fun fact about the effects of marijuana on the brain
