I love simplicity and silence. I enjoy taking photos of birds. I also enjoy drinking tea — green, white, yellow, but not black. I live at Waikawa Beach in New Zealand, which I love, and strive to be an actively decent human being. In 2025 I expect to move to Ruakākā near Whangārei. Apparently the bizarre is normal now. Now 69, I'm super happy to be getting old — it means I'm not dead yet! Proudly independent. 100% human (she / her). I joined the MB community on 05 January 2018. Follow me on Micro.Blog at https://micro.blog/miraz .
I’ve been working my way happily through the RNZ podcast series Elemental. The episode on Thulium - the most laborious of the lanthanoids was particularly interesting and fun.
Isolating the element thulium … took many years.
15,000 recrystallisations to prepare the sample
