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Writer's pictureMarkus Sommer

My best friend Kao

Updated: Aug 23, 2021

Now that you know me, I don't want to miss introducing you to my best friend and companion!



 

Here is a picture of KaO (source: Wikipedia):






I call him Kao, but his real name is Calcium Oxide, only that is too long for me.


If Kao is around and we both like the working conditions, so it's really warm and a few other factors come into play, there's a chance you'll find me too.


Honour to whom honour is due


Honestly?


Without Kao, I probably wouldn't even exist in many places, but Kao probably doesn't know that. He's usually there before me, my birth assistant, so to speak, and that's probably why we're so close.



And now I have to be grateful to my family again, even if it's hard! They were also there before me! You know that I am the black sheep, but in the end I often can't help it that I am there.


So if you're looking for someone to blame, why don't you see to it that Kao disappears?


It's Kao who is doing crazy experiments with my brothers and cousins, it's really not my fault!



Who was in the night storage panels before me, where they found me? Kao was, believe me, I came later!


Who was on the turbine first? Kao was.


Ask the chemists what happens when Kao and my brother "CR III" ignite together at the right steles, they can certainly explain it to you better, I never cared about my family tree. It is enough for me to be there!


And once again my warning, I really don't want anything from you! Kao even less, it is not his fault that he is in so many insulating materials.


My family doesn't want anything from you, they just want to shine or be noble.


Beware of me, and above all, see to it that Kao and my family don't get together, at least not where it's quite warm, blowing or steaming.


Last but not least, on my own account:


You won't find me, i.e. the calcium chromate (the Cr6 compound) on the data sheets, because when the data sheets were printed, I didn't even exist; I'm just a sly fox, they put me somewhere else, because I'm on the black list, I think it's called "Reach"!


But if you find Kao in the data sheets and he gets together with my brothers from my chrome family, then be warned!


Some people already found out, but imagine, they would look for me everywhere now and probably find me here and there, what a mess that would be. I belong in the hazardous waste and whether you can blow me away so easily, I can not imagine with the best will in the world.


Whereby, but pssst: I have already seen it, but as they say so well?


Where there is no plaintiff, there is no judge!


Imagine what a commotion that would be, if suddenly someone would say that he knows where I was, am or maybe just once again somewhere the light of day.


With this in mind, how do people like to say at the moment?


Stay healthy!



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