Hydrogen Peroxide
It makes my teeth white , cures athletes foot and jock itch , its a great toilet disinfectant ....and its cheap!
Is Hydrogen Peroxide safe to use on the FJ?
Hydrogen Peroxide
It makes my teeth white , cures athletes foot and jock itch , its a great toilet disinfectant ....and its cheap!
Is Hydrogen Peroxide safe to use on the FJ?
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Why does the carbonation go away faster when you put your finger in the foam of a freshly poured pop or beer?
The presence of thin films of water requires a stabilizing agent which alters the surface tension. Water, as a polar molecule tends to pull very strongly on the molecules at the surface which stabilizes it into a minimal surface area. This is why water "beads" when it sits on a smooth nonabsorbant surface.
When a compound with intermediate electrostatic properties like soap or protein is mixed with water, it tends to stabilize water at the surface in a way that reduces surface tension. Thin films of water with an inner and outer surface can be formed, and this is what makes stable bubbles.
I'm not sure what material is in soda that makes stable bubbles. I suspect it is not specifically the sugar which is highly polar, but I could be wrong. Many of the flavoring agents are probably moderately large organic molecules. They may act a bit like soap.
When you introduce any other molecular species which tends to interrupt the uniformity of the surface-tension-stabilizing molecular layer, it will pop the bubble. Oils will do that, and salts will do that, but for slightly different reasons.
There are both on your finger. Take your pick.
Soda pop is interesting stuff. I was working in a lab when I was in college and my project involved purifying out a single type of protein from a mixture of stuff that came from crushed cells. There is established technology for doing this, but you have to tweak it just right to get it to work for you on a specific protein from a specific cell type. There are a lot of variables that have to be hammered out and there is inherently some trial and error in the process.
I would work on this late into the night and I drank a TON of Mountain Dew to stay awake. One evening, I was mixing up the "buffer solution" that I was using to keep the pH just right for the protein, and I had a Mountain Dew in my hand. I noticed that quite a few of the ingredients for the buffer appeared in the label on the Dew! Mountain Dew turns out to be an excellent phosphate buffer. It holds it's pH very nicely. However, it killed my protein... so I couldn't use it in the experiment.
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Re: Ask the Bellydoc
So BD, how do you feel about lovastatin/niacin? I just got prescribed it for SLIGHTLY high LDL, did some research, called the doc and said thanks, but no thanks. I refuse. I like my liver function just the way it is, gracias. I have 3 months [hanging out at the gym] to prove that it was a fluke of my eating too many eggs and such for fear of starchy food. Man, I just can't win!
I am already in pretty good shape... I guess I am going to be the best built diabetic ever! I managed to defy taking insulin, now I must defy lipitor!
Please tell me that I am right and not just a pain in the butt patient.
p.s. what if I just start taking niacin supplements up the wazoo??
Last edited by VoodooBrew : 06-14-2007 at 05:34 PM.
So BD, how do you feel about lovastatin/niacin? I just got prescribed it for SLIGHTLY high LDL, did some research, called the doc and said thanks, but no thanks. I refuse. I like my liver function just the way it is, gracias. I have 3 months [hanging out at the gym] to prove that it was a fluke of my eating too many eggs and such for fear of starchy food. Man, I just can't win!
I am already in pretty good shape... I guess I am going to be the best built diabetic ever! I managed to defy taking insulin, now I must defy lipitor!
Please tell me that I am right and not just a pain in the butt patient.
I must point out that being right and being a PITA are not mutually exclusive. I'm a surgeon... I know how to be both at the same time.
The liver damage that you might suffer with lipitor is pretty mild and is reversible. It's not a for-sure, and I don't know if there are any predictive factors that can help with deciding who is high and who is low likelihood for this finding, so everybody should be screened. What happens is probably an increased turn-over rate of normal liver cells (hepatocytes) which release liver cell contents into the blood stream. The "transaminases" are detectable in the blood and act as a marker for the rate of cell breakdown in the liver. Elevated transaminases indicate that the medication should be stopped. There have probably been people who have failed to check the labs and have had subsequent REAL liver damage... but stupidity like that doesn't reflect on the med, it reflects on the doc.
Lipitor works really well. It does its intended job superlatively. It has also been found to have some unintended beneficial side effects such as decreasing the risk of heart attack around the time of surgery.
However... it's a MED! Less medication is better than more medication. I don't just agree with your methods... I AM DOING THE SAME THING!! Hyperlipidemia runs in my family and my last check wasn't pretty. I'm actively working to see if I can lower it through modest improvement in lifestyle. I was a cheese eating slug at the time of the last measurement so I'm sure I can do better... the question is how much.
I'm totally on your side on this one.
However, if you can't do it with activity modifications... don't freak out too much about managing the risk/benefit profile. You're more than equal to this challenge.
As to the niacin... my understanding is that it actually has annoying side effects involving flushing and redness... it's totally safe, but it's annoying.
The same argument applies. If you can get by without it, then rock on.
Automotive Safety Glass....To be specific Windshields.
Do windshields (laminated glass for automotive use) need to meet any
safety requirements or specs .
I know they use 1/4" lami glass always , but are there different
hardness ratings in the glass ..Im not talking about tempered glass!
Lami glass is what windshields are made of ...2 pieces of plate glass
with a layer of plastic sandwiched between ..total thickness 1/4 inch.
Does this glass come in different hardness ratings?
Automotive Safety Glass....To be specific Windshields.
Do windshields (laminated glass for automotive use) need to meet any
safety requirements or specs .
I know they use 1/4" lami glass always , but are there different
hardness ratings in the glass ..Im not talking about tempered glass!
Lami glass is what windshields are made of ...2 pieces of plate glass
with a layer of plastic sandwiched between ..total thickness 1/4 inch.
Does this glass come in different hardness ratings?
My guess is that it would be difficult to obtain objective data about various manufacturer's specific products in a comparative fashion. They will subject their product to testing in order to meet federal guidelines and then if they're going to sell the product based on properties above and beyond what complies with the law, they'll release exactly the information they want to push the product and no more or less. I searched for manufacturer information regarding auto glass products and what I get is lots of information about the installation process, fitment, what common windshields need replacing (no the FJ isn't high on the list... yet) and how fast the glue dries.
The federal regulations involved are called Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards and they are enacted by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, a division of the US Department of Transportation. I looked these up and skimmed through them. The specifications for "glass plastic laminate" involve passing tests that standardize chemical resistance, scratch resistance and strength. Once a product passes these, it's OK for sale.
If you really want to go overboard. Look for ballistic materials.
Hehe, 
I managed to defy taking insulin, now I must defy lipitor!
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